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Published posthumously, the book of disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was fernando pessoa. The book of disquiet is a work by the portuguese author fernando pessoa 18881935. The book of disquiet is the portuguese modernist master fernando pessoas greatest literary achievement. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoas. Like there are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts such as acting and dance entertain. Ive written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently impossible to hide their soundcan only be of something that acquired absolute exteriority and a fullfledged soul. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. In lisbon there are a few restaurants or eating houses located above decentlooking taverns, places with the heavy, domestic look of restaurants in towns far from any rail line. The book of disquiet penguin classics pessoa, fernando, zenith, richard, zenith, richard on. The book of disquiet was found, in fragments, only after pessoa s death. This almostautobiographical story tells of the sombre majesty of. When he died in 1935, pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, the book of disquiet, an astonishing work that, in george steiners words, gives to lisbon the haunting spell of joyces dublin or kafkas prague.