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Machado de Assis: A Literary Life

Machado de Assis: A Literary Life

Jackson, K. David

Hardcover

Series: Major Figures in Spanish and Latin American Literature and t

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismSouth American History

ISBN10: 0300180829
ISBN13: 9780300180824
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: May 26 2015
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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 profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including Jos Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as another Kafka. Philip Roth has said of him that like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering. And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that he's funny as hell.

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