The Book of Disquiet
| First edition | |
| Author | Fernando Pessoa | 
|---|---|
| Original title | Livro do Desassossego | 
| Language | Portuguese | 
| Publication date | 1982 | 
| Publication place | Portugal | 
The Book of Disquiet (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless autobiography". The publication was credited to Bernardo Soares, one of the author's alternate writing names, which he called a semi-heteronym, and had a preface attributed to Fernando Pessoa, another alternate writing name or orthonym.