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Macunaíma ( Portuguese pronunciation: [makũna'ĩmɐ]) is a 1928 novel by Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade. It is one of the founding texts of Brazilian modernism. Macunaíma was published six years after the "Semana de Arte Moderna", which marked the beginning of the Brazilian modernism movement. [1]
- Mário de Andrade, Curt Meyer-Clason
- 1928
Based on the 1928 book by Mário de Andrade, the modern-day parable follows the misadventures of a black man ( Grande Otelo) who is miraculously born to an old woman ( Paulo José ), who is supposed to be of the indigenous peoples of Brasil, in the jungles of the Amazon.
Macunaíma é um herói sem caráter que vive aventuras na Amazônia e em São Paulo, buscando a muiraquitã. O livro de Mário de Andrade é uma rapsódia que retrata as características do povo brasileiro, usando elementos folclóricos e modernistas.
- Doutora em Estudos da Cultura
Características de Macunaíma como a preguiça, a libertinagem, a ganância, o egoísmo, o imediatismo, acabaram aglutinando-se em uma imagem negativa do brasileiro, como se estivessem presentes de maneira generalizada entre a população, de modo a constituir um verdadeiro caráter coletivo.
Macunaima, the hero, loses a talisman his wife gave him before she died; to retrieve it, he leaves his native Amazon forest and travels to São Paulo. He kills a giant, recovers the talisman, returns home, and dies, turning into the constellation of the Big Dipper .
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.
Macunaíma is a novel that follows the adventures of a shapeshifting hero and his brothers across Brazil, mixing folklore, mythology, and pop culture. It is a landmark of Brazilian literature and a classic of modernism, translated by Katrina Dodson with an introduction by John Keene.
