Macunaíma is a miracle. There's nothing like it in all of literature. Katrina Dodson is a hero.--Mario Bellatin

Macunaíma is above all a vision of mythical Brazilian consciousness, a picaresque epic of birth, triumph, decline and death.-- "The New York Times"

Mário wrote our Odyssey and, with a swing of his native club, created our classical hero and the national poetic idiom for the next fifty years.--Oswald de Andrade

He's an anti-hero hero, questioning and contradictory. Macunaíma is an emblem of the marvelous, metamorphosed into the errant question mark of his one-legged constellation. An anti-normative hero who points to a future, eventually more open, world.--Haroldo de Campos

Macunaíma is a self-consciously nation-founding novel that reads like a thick broth of painful historical truth, quoted myth, and irreducible pleasures. Rarely is so much pleasure given and pain revealed by overlapping languages.--Arto Lindsay

A deliberately provocative text, slangy, comical, antiliterary, assuming all the apparent contradictions of the struggle against European seriousness in its various forms.--Pascale Casanova

Electrifying and perplexing, this cornerstone of Brazilian literature shouldn't be missed.-- "Publishers Weekly"

To describe Macunaíma as sui generis would hardly scratch the surface.--Ratik Asokan "4Columns"

One of our sacred books, whose name we dare speak only on our knees.--César Aira

The translation of the year for me was Katrina Dodson's of Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma, a brilliant, creative re-creation and creation and recreation, full of radical translation decisions and countless superb less radical ones too.--Damion Searls "The Millions"

An explosion of language... The obvious comparison for English speakers would be Ulysses, as an encyclopedia of styles, of language forms.--Fredric Jameson