✍ Scribed by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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This "watershed collection" (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado's finest stories.
Widely acclaimed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), as well as "another Kafka" (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro--a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, "the accomplished duo" (Wall Street Journal) behind the "landmark . . . heroically translated" volume (The New Yorker) of the Collected Stories of Machado de Assis, include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories from the seven story collections published during Machado's life--featuring all-time favorites such as the celebrated novella "The Alienist"; the tragicomic "parable of...
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O historiador Sidney Chalhoub dedicou anos ao estudo da escravidão e da vida operária no Brasil do século XIX. Posteriormente, começou a se interessar pela obra de Machado de Assis. Em Machado de Assis, historiador, procura compreender a produção do romancista a partir do contexto social e histórico
O historiador Sidney Chalhoub dedicou anos ao estudo da escravidão e da vida operária no Brasil do século XIX. Posteriormente, começou a se interessar pela obra de Machado de Assis. Em Machado de Assis, historiador, procura compreender a produção do romancista a partir do contexto social e histórico
A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. Widely acclaimed as a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son of a mulatto father and a
Miss Dollar -- Luis Soares -- The woman in black -- Augusta's secret -- Confessions of a young widow -- Straight line, curved line -- Brother Simão -- The blue flower -- Luís Duarte's wedding -- Ernesto What's-his-name -- Much heat, little light -- The gold watch -- Point of view -- The alienist --