“Anthropophagite Manifesto” in The New Review of Literature

The New Review of Literature has just published what can only be described as a draft of my translation of Oswald de Andrade’s Anthropophagite Manifesto. I repudiate the text as published in the journal. It’s riddled with errors. I provided a clearly marked set of proofs, but for some reason my revisions were ignored.

Oswald de Andrade’s Brasilwood Manifesto (coming soon) and Anthropophagite Manifesto are probably the most important documents of Brasilian modernism and anybody who does anything serious in the arts in Brasil has to deal with them in one way or another. A shoddy translation does no one any good.

I’m willing to stand by this, at least for now, and the only galling thing about the situation is that the NRL is really fucking good.