O Enfermeiro (The Male Nurse) was published by Machado de Assis as a standalone, then joined the author´s in the Várias Histórias (Several Stories), published in 1896.
Procópio accepts the job offer: to take care of an ill colonel, who has an insufferable temper.
Their relationship is complicated and dramatic, guiding the characters to a surprising ending.
عن المؤلف
Machado de Assis is the greatest name of Brazilian Literature, a genius of Fictional Realism.
Between 1870 and 1900, he wrote novels, poems, chronicles, reviews and articles which fell into everyone´s graces and influenced the 20th-century Brazilian writers.
Born on the Livramento´s Hill, in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a painter and a washerwoman, he acquired an extense literary culture, combining his bureaucratic career to his passion of prose. He produced masterpieces such as Dom Casmurro and Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas.
المزيد من الكتب الإلكترونية من نفس المؤلف (المؤلفين) / محرر
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