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SARAIVA (António José). FERNÃO Mendes Pinto ou a Sátira Picaresca da Ideologia Senhorial. Lisboa. 1961. - SARAIVA (António José) FERNÃO Mendes Pinto ou a Sátira Picaresca da Ideologia Senhorial . Lisboa: Jornal do Fôro, 1961. 160, [4] pp.: il.; 235 mm. Essay by António José Saraiva on Fernão Mendes Pinto's * Peregrinação* , published as a separate issue of the third volume of his *História da Cultura em Portugal *, originally published in 1958. Against the traditional reading that saw * Peregrinação * as a more or less reliable travelogue, Saraiva proposes an interpretation of the work as a picaresque novel, presenting its narrator as an anti-hero or rogue, in contrast to the heroes of travel books and crusade chronicles of the time, and reading the text as a satire of the dominant seigneurial ideology in sixteenth-century Portuguese culture. The essay has become essential reading in studies on Fernão Mendes Pinto and has permanently altered the critical reception of the work. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate