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ISBN
9780811227025

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811227022
ISBN-13
9780811227025
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27058365101

Product Key Features

Book Title
Macunaíma : the Hero with No Character
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Classics
Genre
Fiction
Author
Mário De Andrade
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-057388
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Macunaíma is above all a vision of mythical Brazilian consciousness, a picaresque epic of birth, triumph, decline and death., Mário wrote our Odyssey and, with a swing of his native club, created our classical hero and the national poetic idiom for the next fifty years., We are so fortunate that Mário de Andrade's rollicking Macunaíma is finally reappearing in English in Katrina Dodson's dazzling translation., An explosion of language... The obvious comparison for English speakers would be Ulysses, as an encyclopedia of styles, of language forms., A deliberately provocative text, slangy, comical, antiliterary, assuming all the apparent contradictions of the struggle against European seriousness in its various forms., He's an anti-hero hero, questioning and contradictory. Macunaíma is an emblem of the marvelous, metamorphosed into the errant question mark of his one-legged constellation. An anti-normative hero who points to a future, eventually more open, world., Macunaíma is a self-consciously nation-founding novel that reads like a thick broth of painful historical truth, quoted myth, and irreducible pleasures. Rarely is so much pleasure given and pain revealed by overlapping languages., The translation of the year for me was Katrina Dodson's of Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma, a brilliant, creative re-creation and creation and recreation, full of radical translation decisions and countless superb less radical ones too.
Synopsis
Here at last is an exciting new edition of the Brazilian modernist epic Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark 1928 novel follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their Amazon home for a whirlwind tour of Brazil, cramming four centuries and a continental expanse into a single mythic plane. Having lost a magic amulet, the hero and his brothers journey to São Paulo to retrieve the talisman that has fallen into the hands of an Italo-Peruvian captain of industry (who is also a cannibal giant). Written over six delirious days--the fruit of years of study--Macunaíma magically synthesizes dialect, folklore, anthropology, mythology, flora, fauna, and pop culture to examine Brazilian identity. This brilliant translation by Katrina Dodson has been many years in the making and includes an extensive section of notes, providing essential context for this magnificent work., Here at last is an exciting new edition of the Brazilian modernist epic Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character , by Mário de Andrade. This landmark 1928 novel follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their Amazon home for a whirlwind tour of Brazil, cramming four centuries and a continental expanse into a single mythic plane. Having lost a magic amulet, the hero and his brothers journey to São Paulo to retrieve the talisman that has fallen into the hands of an Italo-Peruvian captain of industry (who is also a cannibal giant). Written over six delirious days--the fruit of years of study-- Macunaíma magically synthesizes dialect, folklore, anthropology, mythology, flora, fauna, and pop culture to examine Brazilian identity. This brilliant translation by Katrina Dodson has been many years in the making and includes an extensive section of notes, providing essential context for this magnificent work., A brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country's complex identity
LC Classification Number
PQ9697.A72M313 2023

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