Abstract
The figure of Macunaima in the avant-garde novel by Mario de Andrade is interpreted as a double critique: a critique of the 'western' individual and of an attitude that seeks to base its identity on mythical legends. The literary register of this critique is parody and the position from whence it is expressed is the 'in-between' of the postcolonial subject. In his subversion ofthe modern hero (who is represented in exemplary fashion in the Bildungsroman), Macunaima recurs to the tradition of the picaresque novel. Nevertheless, it is clear that the figure of the picaro, even in his transformation to the Brazilian malandro, does not assume the position of the place 'in-between' that the narrator claims for himself.
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