Machado de Assis : a literary life
Machado de Assis, Criticism, interpretation, etc
Yale University Press
2015
EISBN 9780300182644
The literary world of Machado de Assis.
The wizard of Cosme Velho.
The formative period.
Novels of the 1870s.
The literary modernism of Machado de Assis.
Reading Machado de Assis. Machado's pendulum.
Breaking the frame: the rhetoric of substitution.
Machado's world library.
Time's invisible fabric: telling what cannot be said, saying what cannot be told.
Three exemplary modes. Theater and opera: Machado's operatic theater of the world.
Delirium, hallucination, and dream: flying through time on a delirious trapeze.
Humanitas and satire: Machado's mad philosopher.
The actor-authors.
Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo.
Bento Santiago's grand dissimulation.
The love-death theme of Counselor Ayres.
Conclusion.
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 comprehensive English language examination of Machado, 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 20th century, including Jose Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme.
The wizard of Cosme Velho.
The formative period.
Novels of the 1870s.
The literary modernism of Machado de Assis.
Reading Machado de Assis. Machado's pendulum.
Breaking the frame: the rhetoric of substitution.
Machado's world library.
Time's invisible fabric: telling what cannot be said, saying what cannot be told.
Three exemplary modes. Theater and opera: Machado's operatic theater of the world.
Delirium, hallucination, and dream: flying through time on a delirious trapeze.
Humanitas and satire: Machado's mad philosopher.
The actor-authors.
Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo.
Bento Santiago's grand dissimulation.
The love-death theme of Counselor Ayres.
Conclusion.
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 comprehensive English language examination of Machado, 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 20th century, including Jose Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme.
