Récits de tortures et de souffrances : L’exemple de la Peregrinação de Fernão Mendes Pinto (1614)

This article focuses on the notation system of the traveller’s body in Peregrinação by Fernão Mendes Pinto, published in 1614. Thanks to a deliberate staging of bodily suffering, a sort of new ontology is developed. Despite durable exposure to bodily pain, the journey is always the experience of a decentralisation of the self, mainly visible through the near absence of narrative markers, allowing a heuristic openness. Through their multiple meanings, such statements demonstrate the reorganisation of 16th-century travel narratives.