Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878 to 1886 (regarded as Joaquim Machado de Assis's most radically experimental period), this selection of short fiction by Brazil's greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac and philosophical to impishly ironic. Including the author's classic essay on world literature-also appearing in English for the first time-and with pieces chosen from his vast body of work for their playfulness, pathos, and stylistic subversion, this collection is an ideal introduction to ...
Read More
Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878 to 1886 (regarded as Joaquim Machado de Assis's most radically experimental period), this selection of short fiction by Brazil's greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac and philosophical to impishly ironic. Including the author's classic essay on world literature-also appearing in English for the first time-and with pieces chosen from his vast body of work for their playfulness, pathos, and stylistic subversion, this collection is an ideal introduction to one of world literature's greatest talents. "A prodigy of accomplishment...deserving of a permanent place in world literature" - Susan Sontag "Everything about Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis seems double. There's before and after, domestic and metaphysical, high and low, black and white, erotic and austere, short and long, trapped and free, gentle and cruel, perceived and real. The 200 or so stories he wrote spin out these oppositions into a remarkable variousness."-Peter Robb, Times Literary Supplement "There is in Machado's prose a playfulness that teases the reader, humor that mocks solemnity and seriousness. He punctures pretentiousness and ridicules received ideas (...) The range of allusions in his work would have amazed even Nabokov. And as with Nabokov, indeed as with any work of art which gives us what Nabokov calls the shiver between the shoulder blades, what elicits one's astonished admiration is not to do with subject matter...but with that abstract and elusive concept...which manifests itself in that purely aesthetic thing called style." - Zulfikar Ghose, Context No. 12
Read Less
Add this copy of Stories to cart. $7.50, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press.
Add this copy of Stories (Brazilian Literature) to cart. $7.61, fair condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fair. Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis: Stories (Brazilian to cart. $9.50, like new condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press.
Add this copy of Stories to cart. $11.29, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press.
Add this copy of Stories to cart. $14.55, new condition, Sold by booksXpress, ships from Bayonne, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press.
Add this copy of Stories (Brazilian Literature) to cart. $34.96, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press.
Add this copy of Stories (Brazilian Literature) to cart. $65.00, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press.
