Visão e viagem do Oriente na Lusitânia Transformada

• Autor(a) principal: Augusto, Sara
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/mathesis.2013.5264

A journey to the East motivated vast and rich literature during the 16th century. However, if on one hand we wrote long descriptive pages of new places, people and customs, on the other literary texts often accentuated a dysphoric vision, pointing ambition and greed as motivations and corruption as a result of Portuguese maritime company. This vision lasted in the 17th and 18th centuries, with the publication of the Peregrinação and the História Trágico-Marítima, by Bernardes Gomes de Brito, but not earned place as a theme in fiction novelistic during Mannerism and Baroque periods. The big exception is the Lusitânia Transformada (1607), by Fernão Álvares do Oriente. In this work we intend to show the vision of the East in this novel pastoral journey and the reasons for the absence of this theme in fiction till the second half of the 18th century.