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Beschreibung

'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.

'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.

Über den Autor
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 musicianbut became equally influential in fiction, poetry, photography, and art [...] served as the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Cultureand helped organize and participated in the Semana de Arte Moderna (Week ofModern Art) in 1922, an event that would be central to the birth of modernismin Brazil. A key thread of Andrade's work involved the recognition andpreservation of Afro-Brazilian cultures and traditions.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Sport
Produktart: Reiseführer
Region: Südamerika
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Penguin Publishing Group
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780143137351
ISBN-10: 0143137352
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: De Andrade, Mário
Übersetzung: Thomson-Deveaux, Flora
Hersteller: Random House
Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 195 x 130 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Mário De Andrade
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2023
Gewicht: 0,171 kg
Artikel-ID: 122385775