The Apprentice Tourist - Couverture souple

De Andrade, Mário

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143137352 ISBN 13 : 9780143137351

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2023

Synopsis

'My life's done a somersault,' wrote acclaimed modernist writer Mário de Andrade. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, he finally embarked on a three-month odyssey up the great river and into the wild heart of his native Brazil with a group of avant-garde luminaries. All abandoned ship but a socialite, her two nieces, and, of course, the author himself. And so begins the humorous account of Andrade's steamboat adventure into one of the most dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful corners of the world.

Rife with shrewd observations and sparkling wit, his sarcastic, down-to-earth diary entries not only offer comedic and awe-inspiring details of life and the landscape but also trace his internal metamorphosis: his travels challenge what he thought he knew about the Amazon, and drastically alter his understanding of his motherland.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mário de Andrade (Author)
Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) was a Brazilian writer, born in São Paulo, best known for the gleefully anarchic rhapsody Macunaíma, the Hero with No Character (1928). A polymath of his era, he was trained as a musician but became equally influential in fiction, poetry, photography, and art criticism. He served as the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture and helped organize and participated in the Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art) in 1922, an event that would be central to the birth of modernism in Brazil. A key thread of Andrade's work involved the recognition and preservation of Afro-Brazilian cultures and traditions.

Flora Thomson-DeVeaux (Translator)
Flora Thomson-DeVeaux is a translator, writer, and researcher who studied Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University and earned a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian studies from Brown University. She lives in Rio de Janeiro.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143137352
• ISBN 13: 9780143137351
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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