The Book of Disquiet

His prose masterpiece... Richard Zenith has done an heroic job in producing the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever

The Guardian

One of the twentieth century's greatest literary talents... This superb edition of The Book of Disquiet is... a masterpiece

John Lanchester, The Telegraph

Must rank as the supreme assault on authorship in modern European literature... readers of Zenith’s edition will find it supersedes all others in its delicacy of style, rigorous scholarship and sympathy for Pessoa’s fractured sensibility... the self-revelation of a disoriented and half-disintegrated soul that is all the more compelling because the author himself is an invention... Long before postmodernism became an academic industry, Pessoa lived deconstruction

John Gray, New Statesman

Portugal's greatest modern poet ... deals with the only important question in the world, not less important because it is unanswerable: What am I?

Anthony Burgess, Observer

Pessoa’s rapid prose, snatched in flight and restlessly suggestive, remains haunting, often startling, like the touch of a vibrating wire, elusive and persistent like the poetry... there is nobody like him

The New York Review of Books

Fascinating, even gripping stuff . . . a strangely addictive pleasure

Sunday Times

The Book of Disquiet was left in a trunk which might never have been opened. The gods must be thanked that it was. I love this strange work of fiction and I love the inventive, hard-drinking, modest man who wrote it in obscurity

Independent

A Modernist touchstone... no one has explored alternative selves with Pessoa’s mixture of determination and abandon... In a time which celebrates fame, success, stupidity, convenience and noise, here is the perfect antidote, a hymn of praise to obscurity, failure, intelligence, difficulty, and silence

The Daily Telegraph

Judging the English alone, Zenith’s translation is most compelling... I want Pessoa to be as great as the version Zenith presents

Chris Power, New Statesman

Extraordinary... a haunting mosaic of dreams, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims

The Observer