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Original Title:	Macunaíma
ISBN:	0394534123 (ISBN13: 9780394534121)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Venceslau Pietro Pietra, Macunaíma
Setting:	São Paulo(Brazil)
Literary Awards:	Prêmio Jabuti for Melhor Livro de Arte (1979)

Macunaíma Hardcover | Pages: 168 pages

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Title	:	Macunaíma
Author	:	Mário de Andrade
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 168 pages
Published	:	1984 by Random House (first published 1928)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Brazil

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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.

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Then the love-sick girl opened a window giving onto the lonely Pacaembu Forest and said, "I'm going to ask you three riddles, and if you can guess the right answers, I'll get you away safely. Tell me: What is it that is long and round, has a hole in the middle, goes in hard and comes out soft, satisfies everyone's taste and is not a dirty word?""Oh, come now! That's not polite!""Stupid! It's...it's...macaroni!""Uh-uh! So it is! Pretty good, that one!""Now then, what about this? Where is the

This 1928 novel is the original magical realism by Brazilian De Andrade. The hero journeys through Brazilian jungle, native original culture, fable and encroaching modern society. He has three brothers and has bawdy sleeping around with sorceresses & gets in to some humorous scrapes much in the mode of "Monkey" by Ch'eng-en Wu.The tales are very episodic and inventive and it's a wonder to read an innovation in style.

Escrito em 1926 em apenas 6 dias , esse livro conta a história do índio Macunaíma . Preguiçoso, mentiroso, medroso e  traquina, é abandonado pela mãe e começa a vagar com os irmãos pelas cidades e florestas do Brasil, em busca de prazeres sexuais e da sua muiraquitã, um talismã indígena que ganhou do seu amor  Ci , a mãe do mato, que ele acabou perdendo,e que depois ficou sabendo foi parar nas mãos de Venceslau Pietro Pietra .Nesse percurso , o protagonista que nasce negro e vira branco, tem

Ontem fui assistir Macunaíma, ópera tupi, da Iará Rennó e, hoje, achei que precisava saldar minha dívida com o herói sem nenhum caráter, afinal de contas li partes do romance no Ensino Médio para nunca mais. E obviamente me faltava referência, preparo e um bom professor de literatura. Que deleite. Nosso próprio trickster apronta por todo o Brasil. E em suas manhas, na sua alegria e na sua preguiça, reconhecemos um pouco de nós nesse filho de Exu. (Eu posso estar desenvolvendo uma obsessão tardia



A true work of genius, this novel is both wildly inventive (it holds so many stories!) as well as an expression of that spirit which makes Brazil geographically and culturally distinctive. At the risk of sounding like a blurb, or the pitch line in an agent query letter: think Rabelais in the rain forest.

Simplesmente maravilhoso.