Machado de Assis: A Literary Life

by K. David Jackson

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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 English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300180829

ISBN13:9780300180824

Release Date:May 2015

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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