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Machado De Assis 26 Stories
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Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-14
Machado De Assis 26 Stories written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with Fiction categories.
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 bureaucracy, madness, and power” (Los Angeles Review of Books), “Midnight Mass”; “The Cane”; and “Father Against Mother.” Ultimately, Machado de Assis: 26 Stories affirms Machado’s status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.
The Collected Stories Of Machado De Assis
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Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-12
The Collected Stories Of Machado De Assis written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Fiction categories.
New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year 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 the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—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. Drawn to the master’s psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro, a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters, acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have now combined Machado’s seven short-story collections into one volume, featuring seventy-six stories, a dozen appearing in English for the first time. Born in the outskirts of Rio, Machado displayed a precocious interest in books and languages and, despite his impoverished background, miraculously became a well-known intellectual figure in Brazil’s capital by his early twenties. His daring narrative techniques and coolly ironic voice resemble those of Thomas Hardy and Henry James, but more than either of these writers, Machado engages in an open playfulness with his reader—as when his narrator toys with readers’ expectations of what makes a female heroine in “Miss Dollar,” or questions the sincerity of a slave’s concern for his dying master in “The Tale of the Cabriolet.” Predominantly set in the late nineteenth-century aspiring world of Rio de Janeiro—a city in the midst of an intense transformation from colonial backwater to imperial metropolis—the postcolonial realism of Machado’s stories anticipates a dominant theme of twentieth-century literature. Readers witness the bourgeoisie of Rio both at play, and, occasionally, attempting to be serious, as depicted by the chief character of “The Alienist,” who makes naively grandiose claims for his Brazilian hometown at the expense of the cultural capitals of Europe. Signifiers of new wealth and social status abound through the landmarks that populate Machado’s stories, enlivening a world in the throes of transformation: from the elegant gardens of Passeio Público and the vibrant Rua do Ouvidor—the long, narrow street of fashionable shops, theaters and cafés, “the Via Dolorosa of long-suffering husbands”—to the port areas of Saúde and Gamboa, and the former Valongo slave market. One of the greatest masters of the twentieth century, Machado reveals himself to be an obsessive collector of other people’s lives, who writes: “There are no mysteries for an author who can scrutinize every nook and cranny of the human heart.” Now, The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis brings together, for the first time in English, all of the stories contained in the seven collections published in his lifetime, from 1870 to 1906. A landmark literary event, this majestic translation reintroduces a literary giant who must finally be integrated into the world literary canon.
Machado De Assis Greatest Short Stories
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Author : Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Lebooks Editora
Release Date : 2024-02-26
Machado De Assis Greatest Short Stories written by Machado de Assis and has been published by Lebooks Editora this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-26 with Fiction categories.
Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Brazilian writers of all time. Author of "Dom Casmurro," "Memórias Póstumas de Braz Cubas," "Quincas Borba," and dozens of other unforgettable titles, Machado was a complete author, having written novels, short stories, poems, plays, critiques, chronicles, and correspondence. In the genre of short stories, Machado published over two hundred stories, always with the enormous talent that is peculiar to him, which makes any selection of his best short stories a challenging task; but it has been done! " Machado de Assis Best Short Stories" brings the reader an exquisite selection of his best stories, recognizing in each of them the unparalleled talent of this brilliant Brazilian writer.
A Chapter Of Hats
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Author : Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Release Date : 2008
A Chapter Of Hats written by Machado de Assis and has been published by Bloomsbury UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
The stories in this book, many of them published in English for the first time, are taken from Machado de Assis's mature period of life. They echo Poe and Gogol, anticipate Joyce, and have been compared to contemporary works by Chekhov, Maupassant and Henry James, yet they are not quite like any of these- they are - well - pure Machado de Assis. For example, two gentlemen standing outside a church in Rio de Janeiro see a respectable lady emerge - one of them has an unexpected, and to him inexplicable, story to tell about her past life as a prostitute; a popular composer of polkas burns the midnight oil in a desperate attempt to create great classical music, haunted by the fear that he will only achieve another perfect polka; a teenager finds himself captivated by the sight of the bare arms of an older woman who lives with his employer; an impoverished, lazy young man turns to the lucrative trade of catching runaway slaves; while the title story, beginning with a mock-heroic invocation ('Muse, sing of the anger of Mariana, the wife of the lawyer Conrado Seabra, that morning in April 1879'), tells of a bored wife who has a tiff with her husband about the hat he wears to work each day, and decides to go out on the town with a more daring, flirtatious friend to see what other 'male and female hats' get upto. John Gledson's sparkling translations of a master storywriter's work are pure pleasure to read.
The Posthumous Memoirs Of Br S Cubas
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Author : Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Lebooks Editora
Release Date : 2024-05-21
The Posthumous Memoirs Of Br S Cubas written by Machado de Assis and has been published by Lebooks Editora this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with Fiction categories.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 – 1908) was a writer considered by many critics, scholars, writers, and readers to be the greatest name in Brazilian literature. Machado de Assis left a very extensive body of work, the result of half a century of literary labor, which includes plays, poetry, prologues, critiques, speeches, more than two hundred short stories, and several novels. "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas" (1881) is a first-person narrative considered Machado de Assis's masterpiece. The novel, extremely daring for its time, is framed as the memoirs of a character, Brás Cubas, who writes after his death. The dedication at the beginning of the book already anticipates the humor and fine irony present throughout: "To the worm that first gnawed at the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these posthumous memoirs."
The Collected Stories Of Machado De Assis
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Author : Machado De Assis
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-06-12
The Collected Stories Of Machado De Assis written by Machado De Assis and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Fiction categories.
New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year 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 the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—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. Drawn to the master’s psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro, a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters, acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have now combined Machado’s seven short-story collections into one volume, featuring seventy-six stories, a dozen appearing in English for the first time. Born in the outskirts of Rio, Machado displayed a precocious interest in books and languages and, despite his impoverished background, miraculously became a well-known intellectual figure in Brazil’s capital by his early twenties. His daring narrative techniques and coolly ironic voice resemble those of Thomas Hardy and Henry James, but more than either of these writers, Machado engages in an open playfulness with his reader—as when his narrator toys with readers’ expectations of what makes a female heroine in “Miss Dollar,” or questions the sincerity of a slave’s concern for his dying master in “The Tale of the Cabriolet.” Predominantly set in the late nineteenth-century aspiring world of Rio de Janeiro—a city in the midst of an intense transformation from colonial backwater to imperial metropolis—the postcolonial realism of Machado’s stories anticipates a dominant theme of twentieth-century literature. Readers witness the bourgeoisie of Rio both at play, and, occasionally, attempting to be serious, as depicted by the chief character of “The Alienist,” who makes naively grandiose claims for his Brazilian hometown at the expense of the cultural capitals of Europe. Signifiers of new wealth and social status abound through the landmarks that populate Machado’s stories, enlivening a world in the throes of transformation: from the elegant gardens of Passeio Público and the vibrant Rua do Ouvidor—the long, narrow street of fashionable shops, theaters and cafés, “the Via Dolorosa of long-suffering husbands”—to the port areas of Saúde and Gamboa, and the former Valongo slave market. One of the greatest masters of the twentieth century, Machado reveals himself to be an obsessive collector of other people’s lives, who writes: “There are no mysteries for an author who can scrutinize every nook and cranny of the human heart.” Now, The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis brings together, for the first time in English, all of the stories contained in the seven collections published in his lifetime, from 1870 to 1906. A landmark literary event, this majestic translation reintroduces a literary giant who must finally be integrated into the world literary canon.
Trio In A Minor
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Author : Machado de Assis
language : pt-BR
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-20
Trio In A Minor written by Machado de Assis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-20 with categories.
A bilingual collection of five stories by the Brazilian literary master, Machado de Assis. Two-"Luiz Soares" and "Straight Line and Curved Line"-are from his early formative period and have never before been translated to English. The other three-"Fulano," Trio in A-Minor," and "Cabriolet Anecdote"-are from his later, more literary period. An insightful Foreword explores the differences and relationships of these two periods.
Dom Casmurro F
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Author : Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Dom Casmurro F written by Machado de Assis and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Self-Help categories.
One night, coming from the city to Engenho Novo, I met on the Central train a young man from the neighborhood, whom I know by sight and wearing a hat. He greeted me, sat next to me, talked about the moon and the ministers, and ended up reciting verses to me. The journey was short, and the verses might not have been entirely bad. It happened, however, that as I was tired, I closed my eyes three or four times; it was enough for him to stop reading and put the verses in his pocket.
A Machado De Assis Anthology In Translation
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Author : Joaquim Maria de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-22
A Machado De Assis Anthology In Translation written by Joaquim Maria de Assis and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-22 with categories.
The stories contained in this collection should give the reader who is new to Machado a glimpse of his extraordinary skill and range as an author of short stories. They include the evocative character studies of Her Arms and The Fortuneteller, the haunting terror of The Secret Cause, the political and religious satire of The Most Serene Republic and The Devil's Church, and early forays into the fantastic such as A Skeleton. These are not meant to be the best stories Machado de Assis ever wrote - though it does include indelible classics like Midnight Mass and A Famous Man - but rather an entry point for readers interested in an author Susan Sontag once called "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America."
Posthumous Memoirs Of Br S Cubas
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Author : Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: SAMPI Books
Release Date : 2024-06-28
Posthumous Memoirs Of Br S Cubas written by Machado de Assis and has been published by SAMPI Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-28 with Fiction categories.
"Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas," by Machado de Assis, is a novel narrated by the deceased Brás Cubas, who revisits his life, loves, and failures with irony and sarcasm. Critiquing 19th-century society, the work challenges narrative conventions and explores human vanity and hypocrisy with humor and depth.