The great Portuguese poet and thinker Fernando Pessoa offers insight into his elusive and complex personality. The author of the monumental work "The Book of Disquiet" has a thousand faces: he is a poet and theosophist, a pacifist and monarchist, a classicist and futurist, one who doubts himself and one who elevates himself, a misanthrope and a friend of humanity. This multiplicity reveals what preoccupied the Portuguese: his searching, doubting, and becoming, his inner struggles, his contradictions, his longing for self-assurance and identity. In a selection of self-analyses, diary entries, and letters, complemented by statements from contemporaries, the renowned Pessoa expert and translator Inés Koebel invites readers to trace the path of this mysterious master of transformation.