The Apprentice Tourist Mrio De Andrade by Mário De Andrade 9780143137351, 9780593511305, 0143137352, 0593511301 instant download after payment.

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“My life’s done a somersault,” wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, & almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South America in In Patagonia, Andrade, the queer mixed-race “pope” of Brazilian modernism & author of the epic novel Macunaíma, finally embarks on a three-month steamboat voyage up the great river & into one of the most dangerous & breathtakingly beautiful corners of the world. Rife with shrewd observations & sparkling wit, & featuring more than a dozen photographs, The Apprentice Tourist not only offers an awed & awe-inspiring fish-out-of-water account of the Indigenous peoples and now-endangered landscapes of Brazil that he encounters (and, comically, sometimes fails to reach), but also traces his internal metamorphosis: The trip prompts him to rethink his ingrained Eurocentrism, challenges his received narratives about the Amazon, & alters the way he understands his motherland & the vast diversity of cultures found within it.

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Mário de Andrade (Oct. 9, 1893–Feb. 25, 1945) was arguably the most important figure in Brazilian modernism. A polymath of his era, he was trained as a musician but became equally influential in fiction, poetry, photography, & art criticism.

He served as the founding director of São Paulo’s Department of Culture & was a central instigator of the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Week), an event that would be regarded as the birth of modernism in Brazil. De Andrade lived almost his entire life in São Paulo, where he played a central role in shaping the avant-garde sensibilities of nearly every field of Brazilian art.