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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 washerwoman, was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963, and still lacks proper recognition today. Aware of this lacuna and drawn to the master's psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro--a world populated with down-and-out aristocrats, parvenus, and struggling spinsters--Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have combined all seven of Machado's short-story collections appearing in his lifetime into one volume featuring seventy-six stories, a dozen...
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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
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