The Book of Disquiet
Pessoa's posthumously published masterpiece is a fragmentary reflection on life, art, and consciousness by his semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares. Written as diary entries, it explores solitude, dreams, the nature of self, and the act of writing itself. The work is a modernist meditation on existence and the multiplicity of identity.
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