Hero of Our People
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 Show More
by Mário de Andrade, translated by Katrina Dodson.
Fitzcarraldo, 318 pp., £12.99, May 2023,
“... 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 ... ”