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Adam Thirlwell: On Mário de Andrade, 22 May 2025

Macunaíma 
by Mário de Andrade, translated by Katrina Dodson.
Fitzcarraldo, 318 pp., £12.99, May 2023, 978 1 80427 026 4
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... was dedicated more to some notion of the readable than to any recreation of Andrade’s effects. Katrina Dodson’s new translation instead attempts to be as high-strung and versatile as the original. She has made two major stylistic decisions: to reproduce Andrade’s estrangements of vocabulary, and to narrate the novel in a version of down-home ...

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