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Fernando Pessoa, a multifaceted Portuguese writer, created a plethora of heteronyms to express his diverse literary talents, each with their own distinct lives and philosophies. Upon his death in 1935, he left a trunk filled with unpublished works, including the remarkable The Book of Disquiet, which emerged posthumously as his masterpiece. This collection, first published fifty years after his passing, serves as an “autobiography” of Bernardo Soares, one of his alternate selves. Blending diary entries, prose poetry, and descriptive passages, and translated by Richard Zenith, the book has become a seminal 20th-century work, placing Lisbon alongside Joyce’s Dublin and Kafka’s Prague in literary significance.
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