The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa's fragmentary masterpiece gathers the musings of a Lisbon clerk into an unclassifiable anti-novel, a shimmering diary of solitude, dream and the strangeness of simply being alive.

At a glance A humble assistant bookkeeper in Lisbon goes about his unremarkable days, and in the… What it's about The Book of Disquiet is less a novel than a life's accumulation of… Left unfinished and unordered at his death, it collects reflections, prose poems and… There is almost no plot; instead there is a single restless consciousness, turning the…

The Book of Disquiet is less a novel than a life's accumulation of fragments, attributed by Fernando Pessoa to Bernardo Soares, one of his many invented authorial selves.