Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable.-- Publishers Weekly Pessoa\'s amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output.--William Boyd A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.
Most of Pessoa\'s writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982..
Fernando Pessoa , one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888.
Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable.-- Publishers Weekly Pessoa\'s amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output.--William Boyd A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature
