ARGONAUT BOOKS

A brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country's complex identity.  Reviews 'Dodson's translation captures all the playfulness of the Portuguese text. The Brazilian colloquialisms are transposed to a fizzy American vernacular, but flora and fauna maintain their original names, inviting a surrender to the story's strange, defamiliarising atmosphere. Andrade conceived of Macunaìma as one long poem or "troubadour ballad": we're lucky to hear it sung in English.' - Pablo Scheffer, Telegraph'Macunaìma is above all a vision of myth...Read More