First published fifty years after the death of Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), the great Portuguese poet of the early 20th century, The Book of Restlessness is a unique collection of aphoristic sayings that constitute the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, an assistant accountant in the city of Lisbon, one of the alternative personalities poet. This “autobiography without facts” is the prose of a poet or poetry in prose, the deeply lyrical reflections of a philosopher, the verbal painting of an artist who sees the very essence of things through a transparent surface for him. “The Book of Rest” is designed to hypnotize the reader and lead him into the very heart of that very “ restlessness,” that very thirst and melancholy with which all of Pessoa’s works are filled. In a new translation by Alexander Dunaev. This edition is also supplemented by notes and excerpts from letters from Fernando Pessoa.