The central focus of the article is an interpretation of Brian Castro’s novel, The Bath Fugues (2009), and in particular the role of one of its central characters, the poet Camilo Conceição, a fictional re-creation of the Portuguese poet Camilo Pessanha, who lived in Macau from 1894 until his death in 1926. The article traces themes in this novel back to the author’s central preoccupations expressed in his previous work, namely issues surrounding identity as a plural and mobile concept, the hybrid nature of identity, the importance of storytelling, and the relationship between fiction and reality, invention and truth.