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Book of Disquiet Book
Fiction. Autobiography. Translated from the Portuguese with an introduction and translator's notes by Alfred Mac Adam. These short, aphoristic paragraphs, ranging in size from a few sentences to a few pages, comprise the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Fernando Pessoa's many devastatingly captivating literary alter egos. Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers in one: his works were composed by what he named "heteronyms," alter egos with distinct biographies, ideologies, influences, horoscopes. THE BOOK OF DISQUIET was found after Pessoa's death, on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk, and was finally published nearly 50 years later. "A fractured assemblage of quasi-symbolist reveries, cynical epigrams, musings on quotidian torpor, and gorgeously wrought … read more...
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