Hallucinated CityMrio de Andrade (trans. Jack E. Tomlins) Often hailed as the Bible of Brazilian modernism, Mrio de Andrades Paulicia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) weaves together threads from French symbolist poetry, German expressionist painting, and musicology into a whirring tapestry of his beloved city of So Paulo, and answer and affront to the strains of Futurism so omnipresent at the time. It is reprinted here in the seminal translation of the late scholar

drug addiction

Via Loy’s preoccupation with the artist’s model

Building with the narrative quality of a novel

literaire essays en ‘veldnotities’ over tal van onderwerpen

In De doodstrompet kijkt Paul Demets met een vernieuwde blik naar zijn naaste omgeving en naar de samenleving

are the apprentices of grace

as he witnessed its destruction by the onerous forces of urban renewal

declaring everything a box while refusing to exist within one

Kouwenaar dichtte over concrete dingen – een tafel

and his emotional visit home after a thirteen-year separation (“the mother tongue has deepened my foreignness”)

The Letters are fierce epistolary poems

individual and collective experiences are evoked by voices that dissolve and blur the boundaries of the self