Bücher von Mário de Andrade

Figura central da vanguarda cultural brasileira do início do século XX, a influência de Mário de Andrade ecoa até os dias atuais na vida intelectual brasileira. Sobre sua atuação como cronista, disse: No meio da minha literatura, sempre tão intencional, a crônica era um sueto, a válvula verdadeira por onde eu me desfatigava de mim. Também é certo que jamais lhe dei maior interesse que o momento breve em que, com ela, brincava de escrever.

Às margens do Uraricoera, na Floresta Amazônica, nasce o preguiçoso e vaidoso Macunaíma, que desde pequeno, não hesita em mentir e se transformarem outras pessoas para satisfazer seus desejos.Sua mãe logo o abandona e, em sua nova jornada, ele ganha um talismã da Mãe do Mato, mas o perde.Então, parte para o Sudeste do Brasil em busca do amuleto.Macunaíma é um marco modernista e uma reflexão do autor sobre a cultura brasileira.Mescla os dialetos e costumes de diversas regiões na narrativa e aborda a desigualdade social no país.

Macunaíma vom Stamm der Tapanhumas lebt faul und sorglos im brasilianischen Urwald. Doch als sein Amulett verloren geht, muss er seiner Sippe den Rücken kehren und ausgerechnet nach São Paulo, in die erstaunliche Millionenstadt, wo alles voller Maschinen ist. Der »Held ohne jeden Charakter« gerät dort in Bordelle, Militärparaden und an die Polizei, er begegnet Hexen, Guerilleras und menschenfressenden Industriemagnaten. Und bekommt, unbedarft, wie er ist, die aberwitzigen Sitten seiner Zeit am eigenen Leib zu spüren. »Macunaíma« ist das Hauptwerk des brasilianischen Modernismus. Mit diesem farben- und formensatten Roman werden die europäischen Vorbilder 1928 endgültig vom Sockel gestoßen. Die lebenspralle Polyphonie und die Zerrissenheit des Landes werden hier erstmals mit fulminanter Stimme gefeiert.

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 the story of a Brazilian teen and a young German woman. 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.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. This bilingual edition presents the original Portuguese alongside Ana Lessa-Schmidt's careful and creative English interpretation of Andrade's Modernist style.