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Vol 2. Latinidad - I Know What You've Been Saying about Me - Mario de Andrade and the Love of Everything

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Mário de Andrade spent his life resisting the demand to become one thing. Poet, novelist, musician, folklorist, photographer, and architect of Brazilian modernism, he made contradiction part of his form.

In 1928, responding to rumors about his “so-called homosexuality,” Mário wrote: “I don’t deny it.” Years later, he created a word for himself and described in himself a kind of…