Description
Presented as the fragmented diary of Bernardo Soares, a solitary assistant bookkeeper in Lisbon, this haunting work transforms ordinary routines into occasions for profound reflection. Through lyrical meditations, aphorisms, and dreamlike observations, it explores loneliness, identity, consciousness, beauty, and the uneasy distance between imagination and lived experience. Spanning Pessoa’s creative life and shaped by his modernist experiments with voice and selfhood, the book offers not a conventional narrative but an endlessly resonant portrait of an inner world.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Classics
Published Nov 26, 2002
544 pages
ISBN: 9780141183046
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Details
First Published
1982
Language
eng
Translation
Original: Livro do Desassossego
From: por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.