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Stories (Brazilian Literature Series)
Jo Machado De Assis
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Description for Stories (Brazilian Literature Series)
Paperback. Translator(s): McNeil, Rhett. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878 to 1886 (regarded as Joaquim Machado de Assis’s most radically experimental period), this selection of short fiction by Brazil’s greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac and philosophical to impishly ironic. Including the author’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, this collection is an ideal introduction to one of world literature’s greatest talents. “A prodigy of accomplishment…deserving of a permanent place in world literature” ... Read more
Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878 to 1886 (regarded as Joaquim Machado de Assis’s most radically experimental period), this selection of short fiction by Brazil’s greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac and philosophical to impishly ironic. Including the author’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, this collection is an ideal introduction to one of world literature’s greatest talents. “A prodigy of accomplishment…deserving of a permanent place in world literature” ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564788993
SKU
V9781564788993
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About Jo Machado De Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis (1839 - 1908), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis or just Machado, was a celebrated Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He was widely regarded as the greatest Brazilian writer of all time, and as one of the world's greatest novelists and short story writers. In his honor, the Brazilian ... Read more
Reviews for Stories (Brazilian Literature Series)
A prodigy of accomplishment... deserving of a permanent place in world literature.
Susan Sontag I couldn't believe he lived as long ago as he did. You would've thought he wrote it yesterday... Great wit, great originality and no sentimentality.
Woody Allen Machado de Assis does not belong to the Romantic and Realist current of nineteenth-century Spanish America; instead, ... Read more
Susan Sontag I couldn't believe he lived as long ago as he did. You would've thought he wrote it yesterday... Great wit, great originality and no sentimentality.
Woody Allen Machado de Assis does not belong to the Romantic and Realist current of nineteenth-century Spanish America; instead, ... Read more