{"product_id":"macunaima-9780811227025","title":"Macunaíma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country’s complex identity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMacunaíma\u003c\/em\u003e is a miracle. There’s nothing like it in all of literature. Katrina Dodson is a hero.\" -- Mario Bellatin\u003cbr\u003e\"An explosion of language… The obvious comparison for English speakers would be Ulysses, as an encyclopedia of styles, of language forms.\" -- Fredric Jameson\u003cbr\u003e\"We are so fortunate that Mário de Andrade’s rollicking \u003cem\u003eMacunaíma\u003c\/em\u003e is finally reappearing in English in Katrina Dodson’s dazzling translation.\" -- John Keene\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMacunaíma\u003c\/em\u003e is above all a vision of mythical Brazilian consciousness, a picaresque epic of birth, triumph, decline and death.\" -- The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Mário wrote our \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"An explosion of language… The obvious comparison for English speakers would be \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e, as an encyclopedia of styles, of language forms.\" -- Fredric Jameson\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMacunaíma\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\"A deliberately provocative text, slangy, comical, antiliterary, assuming all the apparent contradictions of the struggle against European seriousness in its various forms.\" -- Pascale Casanova\u003cbr\u003e\"Electrifying and perplexing, this cornerstone of Brazilian literature shouldn’t be missed.\" -- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"To describe \u003cem\u003eMacunaíma\u003c\/em\u003e as sui generis would hardly scratch the surface.\" -- Ratik Asokan - 4Columns\u003cbr\u003e\"One of our sacred books, whose name we dare speak only on our knees.\" -- César Aira","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527841227095,"sku":"9780811227025","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780811227025.jpg?v=1731869439","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/macunaima-9780811227025","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}