Fernando Pessoa’s work constantly evokes authorship questions, mainly because it was assigned to different heteroryms and was left unpublished at the time of his death. The word “author” is seldom used in an explicit way by Pessoa, who often writes about the hero or the genius’s character. I will argue, in this article, that the Book of Disquietude was created in order to theorize and to prove what he could have defined as an exemplary author. I will thus try to justify the singularity of this book.
