![]() Published editions, quite properly and understandably, tend to order the sections to allow the book to flow, grouping sections which have things in common. Part of the point of making this box of disquiet is to restore some disorder to the text. ![]() “The Book of Disquiet” was never finished, and its sections were not in any particular order (though some are dated) different editions of the book select different sections and edit them into various orders. ![]() “The Book of Disquiet” is centred around the heteronym Bernardo Soares. He wrote using what he called “heteronyms”, invented characters whose thoughts and lives he set down. After he died, a trunk of writings was found in his room. Others can write better, and truer, things about Fernando Pessoa than I can, but the salient facts for these purposes are that Pessoa (1888-1935) was a Portuguese writer who published very little during his lifetime. Fernando Pessoa and “The Book of Disquiet” ![]()
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