The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa revolutionary fighting in Naples

revolutionary fighting in Naples

Translator: Jonathan Galassi

play an active role in Zola's picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked

Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar

this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel - and is certainly one of its finest

The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa revolutionary fighting in NaplesFernando 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