Machado de Assis

Acclaimed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" by Susan Sontag, as well as "another Kafka" by Allen Ginsberg, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-d...

Machado de Assis

Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive Englis...

Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

A progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. This majestic translation combines all his short-story collections appearing in his lifet...

Where the Stress Falls

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, 'See...

Vansinnesläkaren

Machado De Assis (1839-1908) var färgad och arbetarson, i ett Brasilien som avskaffade slaveriet först 1888. Han var epileptiker och självlärd. Som ung typograflärling började han skriva poesi. Så småningom blev han erkänd författare och slutade s...

Quincas Borba

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...

Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 188...

Nowhere People

Winner of the Machado de Assis Prize Driving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's roadside camp. With sud...

Epitaph of a Small Winner

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Antonio Machado

Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first...

Antonio Machado

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Dom Casmurro

Bentinho e Capitu s o criados juntos e se apaixonam na adolesc ncia. Mas a m e dele, por for a de uma promessa, decide envi -lo ao semin rio para que se torne padre. L o garoto conhece Escobar, de quem fica amigo ntimo. Algum tempo depois, tanto um como outro deixam a vida eclesi stica e se casam.

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

Preservada a ortografia de poca.] MEM RIAS P STUMAS DE BR S CUBAS o Romance de Machado de Assis que foi publicado em 1881, inaugurando o movimento realista no Brasil. A obra dividida em 160 cap tulos caracterizados, onde o narrador um finado chamado Br s Cubas que nasceu em uma fam lia abastada do s culo XIX. O Romance se inicia com a declara o da morte de Br s Cubas, cujo protagonista relata suas mem rias depois de ter sido v tima de pneumonia. Machado de Assis no pr logo da terceira edi o destaca: 'O que faz do meu Br s Cubas um autor particular o que ele chama 'rabugens de pessimismo'. H na alma deste livro, por mais risonho que pare a, um sentimento amargo e spero, que est longe de vir de seus modelos. ta a que pode ter lavores de igual escola, mas leva outro vinho. N o digo mais para n o entrar na cr tica de um defunto, que se pintou a si e a outros, conforme lhe pareceu melhor e mais certo.' ('Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cad ver dedico como saudosa lembran

Epitaph of a Small Winner

'I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave m...

DOM Casmurro

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Dom Casmurro

Dom Casmurro is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

Mem rias P stumas de Br s Cubas um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, desenvolvido em princ pio como folhetim, de mar o a dezembro de 1880, e publicado como livro no ano seguinte.O livro marca um tom c ustico e novo estilo na obra de Machado de Assis, bem como aud cia e inova o tem tica no cen rio liter rio nacional, que o fez receber, poca, resenhas estranhadas. Confessando adotar a 'forma livre' de Laurence Sterne em seu Tristram Shandy (1759-67), ou de Xavier de Maistre, o autor, com Mem rias P stumas de Br s Cubas, rompe com a narra o linear e objetivista de autores proeminentes da poca como Flaubert e Zola para retratar o Rio de Janeiro e sua poca em geral com pessimismo, ironia e indiferen a - um dos fatores que fizeram com que fosse amplamente considerada a obra que iniciou o Realismo no Brasil.Mem rias P stumas de Br s Cubas retrata a escravid o, as classes sociais, o cientificismo e o positivismo da poca, chegando a criar, inclusive, uma nova filosofia, mais desenvolvida

Guillaume De Machaut

At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a book th...