A modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses The Trial or In Search of Lost Time Fernando Pessoas The Book of Disquiet is edited and translated with an introduction by Richard Zenith in Penguin Modern Classics. Fernando Pessoa strictly speaking doesnt exist so claimed Alvaro de Campos one of the heteronyms fullyrealised substitute personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa to spare himself the trouble of living real life. In this extraordinary book the putative factless autobiography of an accountant named Bernardo Soares Fernando Pessoa explores and dismantles the nature of memory identity time and narrative creating one of the greatest but also the strangest modernist texts.