Prodigies
Patrick O’Brian, 10 May 1990
The Travels of Mendes Pinto
by Fernao Mendes Pinto, translated by Rebecca Catz.
Chicago, 663 pp., £39.95, October 1989,0 226 66951 3 Show More
by Fernao Mendes Pinto, translated by Rebecca Catz.
Chicago, 663 pp., £39.95, October 1989,
The Grand Peregrination
by Maurice Collis.
Carcanet, 313 pp., £12.95, February 1990,0 85635 850 9 Show More
by Maurice Collis.
Carcanet, 313 pp., £12.95, February 1990,
“... of the great Portuguese classics, the prose equivalent of Camoens; others say that he was a liar. Rebecca Catz says that he was a satirist, that his whole immense book is a subtle, disguised indictment of the state of affairs in 16th-century Portugal and its possessions, a subversive, anti-imperialist satire that, in a time when the Holy Office was ... ”
