text: In a late chapter of this book, the narrator recounts his struggle to realistically imagine Emperor Augustus's transition from manhood to divinity while writing a play about his apotheosis.
full_question: In a late chapter of this book, the narrator recounts his struggle to realistically imagine Emperor Augustus's transition from manhood to divinity while writing a play about his apotheosis. This book recounts an incident in which the narrator watches a farce about a japim bird for four consecutive hours, which he compares to Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces. After entering a hotel in Goiânia, this book's narrator imagines being transported on a "magic carpet" to Karachi, where he contemplates his malaise on the poorness of India. While travelling on a ship from Marseilles to Brazil, the narrator of this book stylistically describes a sunset to demonstrate that a poetic spirit is a crucial element of ethnography.The line "I hate travelling and explorers" opens this travelogue analyzing the Bororo and Tupi peoples. For 10 points, name this work, which was translated into English as A World on the Wane and was written by Claude Lévi-Strauss.
first_sentence: In a late chapter of this book, the narrator recounts his struggle to realistically imagine Emperor Augustus's transition from manhood to divinity while writing a play about his apotheosis.
raw_answer: Tristes Tropiques [or Sad Tropics; or A World on the Wane until it is read]