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29 reviews
Machado De Assis

University Of California Pr, 1966

Machado is a universal genius!
Every Brazilian knows that Machado de Assis is among the top 5 writers in the world and now the world will discover the genius of this Brazilian who is already for us a universal genius! He is even better than Flaubert and Zola and we recommend all his books! Luiz

The Wager: Aires Journal

1 review
MacHado De Assis

Peter Owen Publishers, 1990

The Great-Grandfather of the Soap-Opera.
Machado de Assis used to publish his books weekly on newspapers abou a hundred years ago. His literary work is one of the best in Portuguese language - that he mastered as few did. Besides the perfect use of language, Machado is famous for the psicological insights on his characters. With these characteristics, Machado published "O Memorial de Aires" (Aires Journal) periodically and reached ...

EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER

1 review
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990

o meu brasil!
What a lovely, ironic tale, told from beyond the grave, of a successful Brazilian's life in the 19th century.

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Library of Latin America)

14 reviews
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Ahead of its time
Although most people identify Brazilian literature with the vivid regionalism of Jorge Amado or (more recently) the mystical blabber of Paulo Coelho, Brazilian critics have long hailed Machado de Assis as the country's greatest writer and with good reason. This book is vivid proof of Machado's genius: deeply perceptive of human nature as in much of his work, but also radically innovative in ...

The Devil's Church and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)

1 review
Machado De Assis

Univ of Texas Pr, 1984

All of Twain's humor but without the anger
Machado de Assis was a literary master, and it comes through in this collection of tales. "The Devil's Church" has a biting wit every good as Mark Twain's, and without the tinge of religious hatred that Twain exhibited in his later writings. "The Hidden Reason" is probably the finest short story ever printed; it easily surpasses the best American short stories, and is a cut about the English ...

Helena

3 reviews
Joaquim M. Machado de Assis

University of California Press, 1984

Masterwork from Brazil!
Do you want to read a book which is romantic ,but not frivolous,thrilling but not exagerated?Then try "Helena" written by Machado De Assis,in my opinion the best Brazilian writer of all times.But beware!The author is very exact, almost cynical, in showing life as it really is,full of lies and deceptions.So reading Machado books is always a very tough exercise because you always fell to be ...

Quincas Borba

3 reviews
Joachim Maria Machado de Assis

Métailié, 1991

A masterpiece of world literature!
This is one of the best books I've ever read! The story of the ascencion and fall of a man, his sanity and madness, make us think about our human condition. Machado de Assis is undobted the best Brazilian writer.

Epitaph of a Small Winner

4 reviews
Machado De Assis

Noonday Press, 1952

"Lifelong Wastrel Kicks a Goal at Last"
Brazil has produced a number of wonderful novels. I can name "Rebellion in the Backlands" by Euclides da Cunha, "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands" by João Guimaraes Rosa, "The Tent of Miracles" and "Gabriela; Clove and Cinnamon" by Jorge Amado, and "The Three Marias" by Rachel de Queiroz, but these are only a few. You have to add to this list at least a couple novels by J. M. Machado de Assis, ...

Contos de Machado de Assis (Mania de ler)

1 review
Machado de Assis

Edicoes CEJUP, 1993

The best book of Machado de Assis
I thought the book was very good. I recomend the book because it has different short stories. There are ten short stories that talk about people's everyday life.

O Alienista (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira)

1 review
Machado de Assis

Luso-Brazilian Books, 2006

Unlike Caleb Carr, this Alienist is literature!
Machado de Assis is one of the best know of Brasil's ample stable of fiction writers and certainly one of the most talented. This book is set in a fictional community where everyone needs the doctor's help for their mental illness....perhaps this was Saramago's inspiration for Blindness? This dystopia, however, is more cerebral than earthy, though its plague is just as debilitating. This man is ...

The Alienist
Joachim Maria Machado ; Mac Adam, Alfred ; Carroll Dunham De Assis

The Arion Press, 1998

Esau and Jacob

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

"Selling my birthright for a mess of pottage"
In the Book of Genesis, Isaac and Rebekah have two sons, one hairy and red, the other smooth. These are Esau and Jacob, who struggled with each other even in the womb of their mother. Genesis Chapter 25, verse 23, "And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and ...

The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories.

7 reviews
Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis

University of California Press, 2000

Funny, complex short story
The Psychiatrist (O Alienista) is a very good story. I think some of the reviewers are missing the point. "Who was really crazy? " That is the whole point of the story. That is the question the writer wants you to explore. He doesn't offer you any answers. Readers should just try to enjoy the amusing, smart way in which Machado de Assis address the complex issue of sanity. His witty observations ...

Counselor Ayres Memorial

1 review
Machado De Assis

Univ of California Pr, 1973

If Merchant and Ivory could "go Brazilian".........
Counselor Ayres, the character, was first found in Machado de Assis' previous novel, "Esau and Jacob" just as Quincas Borba appeared in "Epitaph of a Small Winner" before becoming the main character in another novel. The present volume is rather slow, perhaps "slight" is a fair word, and may leave action-oriented modern readers a little bored. The author shuns his usual catchy chapter titles in ...

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