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What makes this such a rich and rewarding book? It is, after all, the “notebook” of a writer or writers filled with feelings of angst and alienation; the title Livro do desassossego can be translated variously as Book of Unease / Disquiet / Unrest / Turmoil / Anxiety, and yet most readers find these disparate texts a source of comfort, even exhilaration. This is, I think, in large part, because it is somehow consoling to find such moments, such states of mind, described so sympathetically and in the most extraordinary prose.

Introduction - Margaret Jull Costa