Announcing a major literary event: here is the first translation into English of a landmark precursor of Latin American magical realism, which has informed the work of contemporary writers from Garcia Marquez to Salman Rushdie. Macunaima, first published in Portuguese in 1928, and one of the masterworks of Brazilian literature, is a comic folkloric rhapsody (call it a novel if you really want) about the adventures of a popular hero whose fate is intended to define the national character of Brazil. "Inventive, blessedly unsentimental," as Kirkus Reviews has it, and incorporating and interpreting the rich exotic myths and legends of Brazil, Macunaima traces the hero's quest for a magic charm, a gift from the gods, that he lost by transgressing the mores of his culture. Born in the heart of the darkness of the jungle, Macunaima is a complex of contradictory traits (he is, of course, "a hero without a character"), and can at will magically change his age, his race, his geographic location, to suit his purposes and overcome obstacles. Dramatizing aspects of Brazil in transition (multiracial, Indian versus European, rural versus urban life), Macunaima undergoes sometimes hilarious, sometimes grotesque transformations until his final annihilation and apotheosis as the Great Bear constellation in the heavens.

Macunaima

Literature & Fiction

Andrade, Mário de

History & Criticism

Random House]

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

Quartet Books

Macunaíma. Der Held ohne jeden Charakter

Literary

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

Às margens do Uraricoera, na Floresta Amazônica, nasce o preguiçoso e vaidoso Macunaíma, que desde pequeno, não hesita em mentir e se transformarem outras pessoas para satisfazer seus desejos.Sua mãe logo o abandona e, em sua nova jornada, ele ganha um talismã da Mãe do Mato, mas o perde.Então, parte para o Sudeste do Brasil em busca do amuleto.Macunaíma é um marco modernista e uma reflexão do autor sobre a cultura brasileira.Mescla os dialetos e costumes de diversas regiões na narrativa e aborda a desigualdade social no país.

Macunaíma (Portuguese Edition)

Principis'

Obra escogida: Novela, cuento, ensayo, epistolario (Biblioteca Ayacucho) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Biblioteca Ayacucho

Macunaíma [paperback] ANDRADE, MARIO DE [Jan 01, 2004] ... 8480636408

MacunaÕma

Contemporary

Editorial Octaedro, S.L.

Os Contos de Belazarte (Portuguese Edition)

Genre Fiction

Nova Fronteira

Macunaíma (edição de bolso) (Portuguese Edition)

Editora Vozes

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Koch, Neff & Oetinger & Co

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