The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Translator: Sophie Wilkins

Translator: Sophie Wilkins

fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee

Irmgard Keun's electrifying debut was an instant sensation in Weimar Germany

play an active role in Zola's picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked

humiliating one

The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Translator: Sophie WilkinsFernando Pessoa, strictly speaking, doesn't exist,' so claimed Alvaro de Campos, one of the 'heteronyms', fully realised substitute personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa to spare himself the trouble of living real life. In this extraordinary book, the putative 'factless autobiography' of an accountant named Bernardo Soares, Fernando Pessoa explores and dismantles the nature of memory, identity, time and narrative, creating one of the greatest but