In the canon
Macunaíma
Mario de Andrade
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1928
- Originally in
- Originally in Portuguese
- Pages
- Pages 170
A shape-shifting trickster is born black in the Amazon jungle, turns white bathing in a magic spring, and treks to São Paulo to win back a stolen charm from a cannibal tycoon, then returns to the forest and rises into the stars.
In the depths of the virgin forest was born Macunaíma, hero of our people.
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