Carl Einstein editor of legends and tales - all paths lead to Africa

Abstract

Movements that perform traditional african narratives transcribed in german. The aim is to think about the displacement of this fiction and this imaginary even to the brazilian reception. In the framework of the article, what is mainly being analyzed is the work of Carl Einstein (1885-1940), a german jewish writer who edited several modernist magazines. He collaborated, among others, with Die Aktion, Der blutige Ernst, Pleite, Die Opale, Zenit and, in Paris from 1929 to 1931, he directed Documents, and edited it with George Bataille, Georges Henri Rivie?re and Michel Leiris, and in which he turns of his research anthropologicaly. Within his work, for the purposes of this study, it is important to highlight the edition of Pla?stica Negra [Negerplastik] and The Art of the 20th century. As an illustration, the article presents three of the african tales, in translation to Portuguese.