The Book of Disquiet
A trunk of fragments left by a Lisbon bookkeeper who never existed, assembled after Pessoa died into a book with no plot that is somehow impossible to put down.
Pessoa left a trunk of fragments attributed to a bookkeeper named Bernardo Soares, assembled after his death into the strangest masterpiece of the twentieth century. There is no plot and no progression, only a consciousness examining itself in Lisbon, and it is somehow unputdownable.
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Maria Popova
No one has written more passionately or more perceptively about that existential dimension of sleep than the Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa (June 13, 1888–November 30, 1935) throughout The Book of Disquiet (public library) — the posthumously published masterpiece that also gave us Pessoa on how to be a good explorer in the lifelong expedition to yourself, the trouble with love, and how to unself into who you really are.
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