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Pessoa was best known for adopting multiple authorial identities and then writing in the differing styles of these “heteronyms.”

His alter egos, or “heteronyms,” are on nearly every page.

This was particularly true of a writer like Pessoa, who actively played with various identities, sometimes allowing his heteronyms to correspond and criticize each other.

He was a whole galaxy of writers — heteronyms, as he called them, with entirely different personalities and different, often radically conflicting, views on poetry, style, nature, politics and the antique.

In total, Pessoa created dozens of heteronyms, most complete with biographies, bodies of work, reviews and correspondence.