The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Characters observe their fellow citizens

Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar

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the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother

a land of shifting deserts and immense heat

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The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Characters observe their fellow citizensFernando 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