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Dusty Papers
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 5 2025
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when the fine cracks of society fracture into grotesque reflections? When the boundaries between reason and madness, ambition and insignificance, truth and deception become so delicate that even the sharpest mind stumbles?
In Dusty Papers (Papéis Avulsos), Machado de Assis crafts a kaleidoscope of human contradictions and ironies, where characters move like chess pieces in a game whose rules are rewritten at every turn. A doctor's pursuit of absolute sanity turns into a terrifying experiment, a conversation on success unravels into a biting social critique, and the trivial becomes profound in brief stories where wit and melancholy go hand in hand.
With a prose as precise as it is unpredictable, Machado de Assis dissects the human condition with an irony so subtle it cuts deep. Translated by Vladek Beksinski, this collection preserves the author's sharp wit and masterful storytelling, ensuring that these are not mere dusty papers left to be forgotten-but pages that challenge, unsettle, and captivate, long after the book is closed.
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