The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). Published posthumously, it is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a factless autobiography. The publication was credited to Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate writing names, which he called a semi-heteronym, with a preface attributed to Fernando Pessoa himself, another alternate writing name. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Composed, From (Year)Published posthumously in 1982, 47 years after Pessoa's death; the work itself is a fragmentary lifetime project with no single clean composition date given by the source, so the infobox publication date is used here instead (named as a gap for depth). Composed, To (Year) Classification
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Who is the author of The Book of Disquiet: Fernando Pessoa or Bernardo Soares?
Pessoa wrote it; the credited author is his semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares.
Fernando Pessoa is the author, but he did not publish the book under his own name. The work was credited to Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate writing names, which he called a semi-heteronym, and it carries a preface attributed to Fernando Pessoa, another alternate writing name. The book is a fragmentary lifetime project that Pessoa left unedited and that was published after his death, and critics and editors differ over its proper organization.
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The Book of Disquiet...is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless autobiography".
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The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).
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The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).
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The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless autobiography".
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The Book of Disquiet...is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935).
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Modernist novels
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