“The aesthetic tie that binds me to the outside world”: From intervals to episodes [“Vosso seja o laço que me une ao exterior pela estética”: De intervalos a episódios] Inês Forjaz de Lacerda* PESSOA, Fernando (2023). The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos. Edited by Jerónimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari. New York: New Directions. 480 pp. [ISBN 9780811229883]. Jerónimo Pizarro and António Cardiello’s edition of The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos (New Directions, 2023) sheds new light on Fernando Pessoa’s heteronym Álvaro de Campos, the bisexual engineer who sought “To feel everything in every way.” Based on the first complete critical edition of Campos’ writings in Portuguese (Obra Completa de Álvaro de Campos, eds. Pizarro and Cardiello, Tinta-da-china, 2014), this most recent contribution to the ever-expanding suite of Fernando Pessoa’s collections includes poetry and prose heretofore unavailable in English along with new translations of some well-known Campos’s poems. Though they have since published an addendum, ND (in their webpage) originally elected not to include any unfinished texts from the Obra Completa, focusing on the complete poems from Campos´s body of work. Campos is perhaps most celebrated for his poem “Tabacaria” (“Tobacconist’s Shop”), which might be the best example of extreme skepticism present in the heteronym’s work: “I’m nothing. | I’ll always be nothing. | I can’t even hope to be nothing. | That said, I have inside me all the dreams of the world” (PESSOA, 2023: 160). There exists a certain nihilism in these verses, as Campos seemingly rejects the sensationist aesthetic of fullness popular in the Pessoan method to argue for a mode of poetic creation that persists on nothingness, and the promise thereof. Ever the cynic, Campos writes in “Lisbon Revisited”: “No: I don’t want anything. | I already said I don’t want anything. | Don’t come to me with conclusions! | The only conclusion is death. | Don’t come to me with aesthetics!” (PESSOA, 2023: 136). Greedy and passion- ate, Campos wants to experience all possible sensations, and in accordance with Fernando Pessoa’s designation of the engineer as an immoral heteronym, “it is * Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University.