Camilo Castelo Branco: sátira, paródia e ceticismo

The writer Camilo Castelo Branco is not particularly well known outside of the Portuguese or Spanish-speaking countries. In this article, following a brief consideration of the way in which his work was analyzed in the last century, the focus turns to the importance of satire in his work, and in particular parody he made of naturalist aesthetics in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Finally, the article seeks to evaluate how a parodic reading may establish a more accurate perspective on some of the characteristics present in his narrative work as a whole.