Review: Joy Williams on Mário de Andrade

Two works of the Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, written almost a hundred years ago, will appear in English this year. Macunaíma, a fantastical smashup of a novel considered a modernist classic and translated by Katrina Dodson, and The Apprentice Tourist, a playful romp of an account of a three-month steamship trip through the Amazon, translated by F…