Part I. Before Pessoa: observation and affirmation. Nietzsche and the super-Pessoa / Richard Zenith ; António Mora and German philosophy: between Kant and Nietzsche / Mattia Riccardi ; Pessoa, Shakespeare, Hamlet and the heteronyms: studies in neurosis / Mariana Gray de Castro ; Masters and spectres: Pessoa's haunts / Rui Gonçalves Miranda ; Going nowhere in Voyage autour de ma chambre and 'Viagem nunca feita' / Rhian Atkin -- Part II. Pessoa and his contemporaries: tracing possible identities for the self. 'Ode triunfal' with a breakdown at the end / Pedro Eiras ; Mirror, mirror on the wall: Unamuno, Bernardo Soares and the literary gaze / David G. Frier -- Part III. After Pessoa: four authors in search of a character. Representing Pessoa / Paulo de Medeiros ; Saramago's 'other' Pessoas and 'Pessoan' others: heteronymic creatino and the ethics of alterity / Mark Sabine ; Tabucchi's Pessoa: a legacy repaid? / Liz Wren-Owens.