Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrín de la FachendaLife and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrn de la Fachenda Don Catrn de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer Jos Joaqun Fernndez de Lizardi (1776 1827), best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrn is three things at once: a rakish pcaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrn, a dandy or