?The Book of Disquiet, Read Through the Gospel

In 1935 a forty-seven-year-old clerk died alone in a Lisbon hospital, having published almost nothing. In his trunk his family found more than twenty-five thousand pages. Inside that unremarkable bookkeeper had lived dozens of other writers — not pen names, but fully realized persons with their own biographies, philosophies, and quarrels with one another. His name was Fernando Pessoa, and the book...