An introduction on Bernardo Soares' fictional biography, style and philosophical perspectives (shared with the orthonym).

The Book of Disquiet as "a factless autobiography" (Fernando Pessoa), the compensation for an uneventful daily life with a boundless imagination: the Rückenfigur as the representation of the anonymous modern city but also as a gateway to another reality; the incidental pedestrians as reflections of the philosophical and literary concept of "contingency"; the passage from objective observation of reality to the exploration of feelings and epiphanies; the absurdity of life (a dead end); the incompatibility between knowledge/conscience and happiness; the modern(ist) problem of time being reduced to the Present. 

Álvaro de Campos' theatrical singing of machinery (an epic of modern life in direct relation to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass) in contrast with his melancholic desire to be everything and everyone else; his final sense of failure towards knowing how to connect with reality.