these stories explore contemporary concerns
I imagine the material presence of the language in space
He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and half-hearted political ambitions
her political insights shrewd and often against the grain
a groundbreaking writer
Fernando Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet Natasha Brown these stories explore contemporary concernsPenguin Modern Classics, 2002, softcover, 544 pages, 12. 8 x 19. 5 cm A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time, Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquietis edited and translated with an introduction by Richard Zenith in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Fernando Pessoa, strictly speaking, doesn't exist,' so claimed Alvaro de Campos, one of the 'heteronyms', fully realised substitute