A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time- a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate's misadventures in the Amazon A Penguin Classic "My life's done a somersault," wrote Mario de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, and almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South America in In Patagonia, Andrade, the queer mixed-race "pope" of Brazilian modernism and author of the epic novel Macunaima, finally embarks on a three-month steamboat voyage up the great river and into one of the most dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful corners of the world. Rife with shrewd observations and sparkling wit, and featuring more than a dozen photographs, The Apprentice Tourist not only offers an awed and awe-inspiring fish-out-of-water account of the Indigenous peoples and now-endangered landscapes of Brazil that he encounters (and, comically, sometimes fails to reach), but also traces his internal metamorphosis- The trip prompts him to rethink his ingrained Eurocentrism, challenges his received narratives about the Amazon, and alters the way he understands his motherland and the vast diversity of cultures found within it.

The Apprentice Tourist (Penguin Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

de Andrade, Mário

Community & Culture

Penguin Classics

A brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country’s complex identity 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 Sao 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.

Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character

Literature & Fiction

United States

New Directions

Brazil in the 1920s was going through many transformations. A new republic was shedding old moralities. Agrarianism was urbanizing. Social mobility was cutting across classes. A nation in search of a new culture was reaching out to the sophistication of Europe.
In this setting, Mário de Andrade tells us the story of a Brazilian teen and a German woman in her mid-20s. He was born into a wealthy family; she was trying to make a living away from her country, carrying the emotional baggage of the Great War in the Old World. He was a student, she a teacher. But her lessons would soon go beyond language, literature, and music.
And she’d also learn a little something herself. Brazilian culture, in those heady boisterous years, was complicated. Love was taking on new meaning. Could love be a transitive verb, uniting subject and object? Or would it best be left intransitive, a subject all alone with an emotion?
Mário de Andrade’s unique use of language and his insights into life contributed to an upheaval in not only in Brazilian culture but in Brazilian literature, inspiring the nation’s Modernist movement. Ana Lessa-Schmidt reflects that Modernist style in her careful and creative translation.

To Love, intransitive verb

Da Annunciação, Viviane Carvalho

New London Librarium

An English translation of the quintessential Brazilian modernist novel. It tells the story of a young German governess hired by a nouveau-riche family in São Paulo, Brazil. She soon learns that she's expected to initiate an adolescent son into the pleasures of the opposite sex. But then she falls in love, and so does he. Or don't they? It's complicated...

To Love, intransitive verb: English Edition

Literary

O Turista Aprendiz (Portuguese Edition)

History & Criticism

ITATIAIA

Macunaima (Coleccion Archivos/Pitt Latin American Series) (Portuguese Edition)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Macunaíma: The Hero Without Any Character

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

King Tide Press

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