Published for the first time fifty years after the author’s death, “The Book of Disquiet” is a unique collection of aphoristic statements that make up Bernardo Soares’s autobiography—an accounting clerk in the city of Lisbon, one of Fernando Pessoa’s alternative personalities (1888–1935). This “autobiography without facts”— prose by a poet or poetry in prose— is deeply lyrical philosophical reflection, and verbal painting by an artist who sees through a surface transparent to him the very essence of things. “The Book of Disquiet” is meant to hypnotize the reader and draw them into the very heart of that same “disquiet”—that same thirst-longing filled in all Pessoa’s works.