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Book SynopsisA brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country’s complex identity
Trade Review"
Macunaíma is a miracle. There’s nothing like it in all of literature. Katrina Dodson is a hero." -- Mario Bellatin
"An explosion of language… The obvious comparison for English speakers would be Ulysses, as an encyclopedia of styles, of language forms." -- Fredric Jameson
"We are so fortunate that Mário de Andrade’s rollicking
Macunaíma is finally reappearing in English in Katrina Dodson’s dazzling translation." -- John Keene
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Macunaíma is above all a vision of mythical Brazilian consciousness, a picaresque epic of birth, triumph, decline and death." -- The New York Times
"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." -- Oswald de Andrade
"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." -- Haroldo de Campos
"An explosion of language… The obvious comparison for English speakers would be
Ulysses, as an encyclopedia of styles, of language forms." -- Fredric Jameson
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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." -- Arto Lindsay
"A deliberately provocative text, slangy, comical, antiliterary, assuming all the apparent contradictions of the struggle against European seriousness in its various forms." -- Pascale Casanova
"Electrifying and perplexing, this cornerstone of Brazilian literature shouldn’t be missed." -- Publishers Weekly
"To describe
Macunaíma as sui generis would hardly scratch the surface." -- Ratik Asokan - 4Columns
"One of our sacred books, whose name we dare speak only on our knees." -- César Aira
