It records with palpable clarity the inner life of an immensely gifted and unbelievably self-contained writer who moves through the daily world of offices and trams and restaurants with no apparent aim besides the description and re-creation of his thoughts. (The putative author of The Book of Disquiet is ``Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon.'') Although he was raised in South Africa and educated in English, Pessoa held that ``my country is the Portuguese language'' this work shows the truth of that claim. A bookkeeper and journalist, he lived quietly in Lisbon and published much of his poetry under assumed names. Pessoa (1888-1935) is not well known outside of Portugal. The private meditations of one of modern Portugal's most celebrated poets and critics, set down pseudonymously in the form of a journal spanning some 20 years.
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