October 04, 2018
Brazil: A Biography by Lilia Schwarcz and Heloisa Starling, Allen Lane, 761pp, £30 In a now famous book of 1928, Manifesto Antropófago, Brazil’s leading modernist poet, Oswald de Andrade, described Brazilian culture as anthropophagic, or “cannibalistic”, eating other forms of European and African literature and music. Brazil itself is a land of bewildering mixed bloods