![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the “autobiography” of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa’s alternate selves. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner’s words, “gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce’s Dublin or Kafka’s Prague.” He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry.” Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquietįernando Pessoa was many writers in one. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. “I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. ![]()
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