The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Translator: Jonathan Galassi

Translator: Jonathan Galassi

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a land of shifting deserts and immense heat

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

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for intermediate learners of French

The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa Translator: Jonathan GalassiFernando 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