A literatura-­mundo e o ano em que Pigafetta completou a circum­navegação = World-literature and the year Pigafetta completed the circumnavigation

Abstract

The first voyage of circumnavigation - started in 1519 by Magellan, completed by Elcano (1522), and narrated by Pigafetta inRelazione del primo viaggio in torno al mondo (1524) - gave empiricalanswers to four different scientific questions: if one could travelby sea and reach East by navigating West; if the American continent had a south passage to another ocean; what was the real dimension of the Equator; and if going eastwards made travelsshorter, showing that time is conditioned by the direction ofmovement. Travels prove, according to Roditi, the relativity of"time, space, matter and the world as a continuum". The Year Pigafetta Completed the Circumnavigation [O ano em que Pigafetta completoua circum-navegação] - a novel published in 2013 by Luís Cardosoand based on a dialogue with Pigafetta's writing - seems to address, metaphorically, similar questions about "World-Literature": if space, time, matter and the world are interrelatedconcepts in translation.