Peregrinação e a Comedia Famosa en dos Partes: Fernão Mendes Pinto do outro lado do espelho

Abstract

Fernão Mendes Pinto moved between the self “pobre de mim”, with prestige thanks to the literary work in which he reverted and the “este ainda sou” by the empirical author, being created that way “personagem viva”, an ontological quality which allowed him “rir até da morte”. In Mendes Pinto, the aphorism which Pirandello exaggerated in the work Seis Personagens em Busca de Autor is achieved: “quem tiver a dita de nascer personagem viva, pode troçar até da morte. Nunca morre!” (Pirandello, 1962: 31). In accordance with the analysis proposed, the topic of this article focusses on the study of some compositions which, flowing from Mendes Pinto’s work, introduce a new configuration of the “pobre de mim” and the events told in Mendesian hypotext. In the theoretical framework, the transmodalization made by 17th century playwright Antonio Enríquez Gómez, titled Fernan Mendez Pinto: Comedia Famosa en dos Partes (1640), occupies an actantial position.