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The Book of Disquiet
What to call this? This remarkable book is not exactly a memoir, or a novel, or essays. At his death in 1935, Pessoa, a Portuguese intellectual and poet, left an enormous trunk full of unpublished work, including hundreds of fragments destined for The Book of Disquiet. Assembled from those bits, this "factless autobiography" of an alter ego named Bernardo Soares (one of many "heteronyms" Pessoa created for himself) is a sort of philosophical grappling with an indifferent universe. Move over, Sartre.
