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A obra-prima da literatura brasileira. Machado de Assis foi uma luz nas letras brasileiras

Machado de Assis's first novel visits themes the author developed exquisitely throughout his career including marriage, memory, and perspective. In this insightful translation by Karen Sherwood Sotelino, and with an introduction by José Luiz Passos, the novel reveals the author's early experiment in drawing out psychological and sociological issues of his times. Readers familiar with his mature works will recognize the progression from infatua...

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas de Joaquim Machado de Assis

A obra-prima da literatura brasileira. Machado de Assis foi uma luz nas letras brasileiras

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Machado de Assis is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. Quincas Borba is one of his four most important novels and features some of the same characters as Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. The main character of this novel is a well-meaning country fellow who moves to the city with his dog, Quincas Borba, named after the mad philosopher who was his previous owner. As the dog's new owner explores the social, political, and commercial wo...

Esau and Jacob" is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level the story of Brazil itself, it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman. Assis presents a study of the doubts and insecurities of the human condition, rather than an heroic bible fable.

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«Der großartigste lateinamerikanische Autor aller Zeiten.» Susan SontagWas wäre geschehen, hätte nicht Jesus die Bergpredigt gehalten, sondern der Teufel? Was, wenn Männer und Frauen ihre Seelen und Rollen tauschten? Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, berühmtester Klassiker Brasiliens und Vorbote des Magischen Realismus, stellt in seinen Erzählungen ironisch alle Konventionen auf den Kopf. Lustvoll spielt er mit den Erwartungen seiner Leser und l...

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Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political andsocial complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens a fascinating world to English speaking readers. When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he l...

Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of an heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a story of the petty squabbles, conflicting ambiti...

Don Casmurro" di Machado de Assis apparve per la prima volta a Rio de Janeiro nel 1899. All'epoca lo scrittore era al termine della vita e aveva sia scritto opere importanti, come le "Memorie dell'aldilà" o il "Quincas Borba", ma con questo romanzo trovò qualcosa che ancora non era stato compiuto: quel punto di equilibrio vorticoso fra racconto e riflessione: il sentimento di una letteratura pensata come potente sguardo sul dolore. Con uno sti...

Der große Klassiker der brasilianischen Literatur in einer preisgekrönten Neuübersetzung Machado de Assis ist der unumstrittene Leitstern unter den Klassikern Brasiliens, sein literarisches Vermächtnis ein Feuerwerk an Witz und Originalität. Unterhaltsam und mit feiner Ironie erzählt er von einer großen Liebe, von Eifersucht und der Macht des Zweifels. Wie viele große Liebesgeschichten beginnt auch diese im Verborgenen: Nur heimlich dürfen Ben...

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Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878--1886, his most radically experimental period, this selection of short fiction by Brazil's greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac to philosophical to impishly ironic. Including Machado's classic essay on world literature -- also appearing in English for the first time -- and with pieces chosen from his vast body of work for their playfulness, pathos, and stylistic subversion,...

Translation of: Memorias postumas de Bras Cubas.

The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style and world view, and this translation doubles the number of his stories pr...

The intellectual invention here, the worldly perception, the ultimate resignation- all give this its special interest for a special market which the earlier book will have indicated." - Kirkus Reviews