Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Author, Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Author, Robert L. Scott-Buccleuch, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $31.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0845-8 It's the simplest of ...

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POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS: A Novel. By Machado de Assis. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson. Liveright. 239 pages. $27.95. Bras Cubas, who speaks to us in Machado de Assis’ ...

Born in 1839, the grandchild of freed slaves, Machado learned Latin as a boy from Silveira Sarmento, the priest whose Mass he served at an estate outside Rio de Janeiro. He lived there with his family ...

Machado de Assis Real, developed by a Brazilian university and an ad agency, shows the 19th-century writer in color, challenging some long-held ideas about him in the process. By Shannon Sims RECIFE, ...

This article examines early translations of “A cartomante,” one of the most anthologized stories written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. I compare an Argentine translation and an ...

Machado: O Filho do Inverno (Editora Ação | R$ 115 e R$ 91, o e-book) reconstrói o percurso de Machado de Assis a partir de fragmentos — o menino do Morro do Livramento, o tipógrafo que aprendeu o ...

In his 1881 masterpiece, Epitaph of a Small Winner, the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis instructs his readers to memorize the phrase “the voluptuousness of misery.” “Study it from time to time, ...