The Book of Disquietude by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (Aspects of Portugal)

"What we have in THE BOOK OF DISQUIET is one of the oddest fish in literature's net. Largely unpublished in its author's lifetime, it has become one of the defining texts of the modern world, precisely because of its protean nature - every edition is radically different. Monstrously unlikely in itself, it is an impossible work of the kind that Borges might have imagined - a 'factless autobiography', as Pessoa puts it, or the dream book of a man who dislikes dreams. Richard Zenith - a name that itself sounds strikingly like one of Pessoa's anglophone personae- has done an heroic job in producing the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever."Fernando Pessoa is the author of 'The Book of Disquietude by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (Aspects of Portugal)', published 1996 under ISBN 9781878818652 and ISBN 1878818651.