The Pessoa cult marches on, and already there is talk of him as "perhaps the greatest poet of the twentieth century". As is well known, he wrote under various names beside his own, not so much pseudonyms as various contrasting facets of his own strange personality, or "heteronyms", as he called them. This heterogeneous collection contains verse translations, scraps of correspondence and rather random prose writings, excerpts from The Book of Disquietude already published by Carcanet, an introductory essay by Octavio Paz, and two examples of the posthumous interview - a genre which fills me with misgivings. There are also photographs and drawings, which add to the text but somehow do not make the man himself any less enigmatic. The title, incidentally, is some years out of date, since Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1888 and died there in 1935.