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The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa

Reflection on the distance between feeling and daily life

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Reflection on the distance between feeling and daily life

The Book of Disquiet brings together self-deprecating reflections on the gap between lofty feelings and the ordinary realities of life. The description places it within existentialist literature and situates its publication history in Pessoa’s wider body of work: most of his writing appeared after his lifetime, and this book was first published in Portugal in 1982. Those details frame the work as both a meditation on inner life and a posthumously published part of Pessoa’s literary legacy.

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  • Readers interested in existentialist literature and reflection on inner life.
  • Readers exploring Fernando Pessoa’s work or modernism.

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Inner life and everyday realityExistential reflectionPosthumous publication

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Book overview

"Readers with a particular interest in modernism will find this work indispensable."--Publishers Weekly

"Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output."--William Boyd

A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of feelings and the humdrum reality of life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the founders of modernism, was born in Lisbon in 1888. Most of Pessoa's writing was not published during his lifetime: The Book of Disquiet was first published in Portugal in 1982.

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