This “watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories.
Widely acclaimed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), as well as “another Kafka” (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales offin-de-siècle Rio de Janeiro—a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, “the accomplished duo” (
Wall Street Journal) behind the “landmark . . . heroically translated” volume (
The New Yorker) of the
Collected Stories of Machado de Assis, include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories from the seven story collections published during Machado’s life—featuring all-time favorites such as the celebrated novella “The Alienist”; the tragicomic “parable of bureaucracy, madness, and power” (
Los Angeles Review of Books), “Midnight Mass”; “The Cane”; and “Father Against Mother.” Ultimately,
Machado de Assis: 26 Stories affirms Machado’s status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.
About the author
Robin Patterson has translated José Luandino Vieira and lives in England.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781631496738 ● File size 2.5 MB ● Translator Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson ● Publisher Liveright ● Country US ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7472073 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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