Sitting at his desk Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores of his boss Vasques of Moreira the book-keeper of all the other employees the errand boy the post boy even the cat But if he left them all tomorrow & discarded the suit of clothes he wears what else would he do? Because he would have to do something & what suit would he wear? Because he would have to wear another suit A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings & the humdrum reality of his life The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature