I love eccentric writers whose neuroses make me seem well-adjusted in comparison, and no writer — not one — was more neurotic than Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa's work The Book of Disquiet is one of life's ...

The Book of Disquiet is translated from the original Portuguese and reimagined by Mark O’Thomas for the Blue Elephant. A staging of the memoirs of Bernardo Soares, a Lisbon bookkeeper, the ‘author’ is ...

Philip Pullman, the author of the beloved His Dark Materials trilogy, and one of the world's best storytellers, has named five of his favourite books. From Fernando Pessoa's fragmentary masterpiece to ...

These 8 books dismantle the illusion of meaning, truth, and the self. From Bataille’s erotic mysticism to Murdoch’s moral ...