Biso: The book of anxiety

The book of anxiety by Fernando Pessoa ... This book is considered a masterpiece of Fernando Pessoa's prose, and one of the greatest literary works that appeared in the twentieth century. And this statement is not out of mockery, when we know that Pessoa never completed the book of anxiety. He believed, while piling these fragments one on top of the other in two large wooden boxes that remained forgotten for forty-seven years, "that its completion would be a form of cowardice, or incapacity, or like a defeated journey." However, this book - which successive editors did their best to collect and complete - is indispensable for anyone who wishes to start reading Pessoa's works. The book of anxiety began as a kind of symbolic diaries, influenced by the traditional diaries and confessions that appeared in the nineteenth century, but it ended as the diaries of two fictional persons: Vseneta Gidsh, initially, and then Bernardo Surash. What distinguishes this edition from the various previous editions is that it suggests reading the book in the way it came into existence, and not by mixing the texts of the first phase with those belonging to the second phase.