The most famous book of the great Portuguese writer in its latest and most complete version. Pessoa's genius at its peak.

Anti-novel, biography of Pessoa's closest heteronym Bernardo Soares, diary, chronicle, a type of literature on its own? What is the "Book of Disquiet" that catapulted its author into the pantheon of the greatest writers of all time and placed him in Harold Bloom's famous Western Canon alongside Dante and Shakespeare?
It was born with the publication of an excerpt in 1913 and continued to be written until Pessoa's death in 1935. It was published 50 years later, and since its creator left only the title and a few, often conflicting, instructions, scholars of the great Portuguese writer, editors, and translators have been composing its excerpts, presenting their own version of the "Book of Disquiet."
This translation is based on the most recent and most authoritative Portuguese version, that of Pessoa's tireless scholar Richard Zenith, and includes 481 excerpts, the major texts the author had chosen for the book, as well as texts by Pessoa referring to it.
"What we have before us," writes R. Zenith, "is the dream-book, the despair-book, the anti-book, beyond any literature. What we have in these pages is Pessoa's genius at its peak."
Thoughts, aphorisms, dreams, stories, descriptions, a magical book that captivates. Each reader, emphasizes Pessoa's translator Maria Papadima, can read it "following the numbering devoutly or randomly opening a page, mixing the excerpts according to the mood of the moment, composing their own 'Book of Disquiet,' creating with its author a novel and absolutely modern relationship, ultimately writing their own personal book."