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Macunaíma : the hero with no character
- Title
- Macunaíma : the hero with no character / Mário de Andrade ; translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson ; with an introduction by John Keene.
- Author
- Andrade, Mário de, 1893-1945
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-1901 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dodson, Katrina
- Description
- xv, 264 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their home in the northern Amazon 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 background information for this magnificent work"--
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP 1560
- Uniform Title
- Macunaíma. English
- New Directions paperbook ; 1560.
- Alternative Title
- Macunaíma.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Novels.
- Contents
- Macunaíma -- Coming of age -- Ci, Mother of the Forest -- Boiuna Moon -- Piaimā -- The French lady and the giant -- Macumba -- Vei, the sun -- Letter to the Icamiabas -- Pauí-Pódole -- Old Ceiuci -- The perky peddler, shiny cowbird, and the injustice of men -- Jiguê's lousy lady -- Muiraquitā -- Oibê's innards -- Uraricoera -- Ursa Major -- Mário de Andrade's prefaces and explanations -- Afterward: "the many lives of Macunaíma" / Katrina Dodson.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-1901
- ISBN
- 9780811227025
- 0811227022
- 9780811227032 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022057388
- OCLC
- 1352990151
- Author
- Andrade, Mário de, 1893-1945, author.
- Title
- Macunaíma : the hero with no character / Mário de Andrade ; translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson ; with an introduction by John Keene.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP 1560New Directions paperbook ; 1560.
- Added Author
- Dodson, Katrina, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-1901