Hallucinated City Shakespeare Selected by the Modern Library

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love

life and death

Een ode aan een vergeten dichteres

The free verse poems in the final section both explore and – perhaps inevitably – enact the ethical ambiguities of the genre

Embroideries

Hallucinated City Shakespeare Selected by the Modern LibraryMrio 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