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The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1982
Originally in
Originally in Portuguese
Pages
Pages 480

A Lisbon bookkeeper's assistant fills fragment after fragment with his dreams, tediums and metaphysics, making a whole inner universe out of an office and a rented room.

I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God.
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

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