Machado de Assis
a literary life
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100300180829
- ISBN-139780300180824
- Library of Congress Control Number2014036996
- OCLC Control Number893974386
- Better World Books9780300180824
and 2 more
- Better World BooksP9-ALD-964
- Open LibraryOL27240251M
Classifications
- DDC869.3/3
- LCCPQ9697.M18 Z6665 2015
- LCCPQ9697.M18Z6665 2015
Description
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 first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, 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 twentieth century, including José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as "another Kafka." Phillip Roth has said of him that "like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering." And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that "he's funny as hell."--Jacket.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Major figures in Spanish and Latin American literature and the arts
Other Editions
- Machado de Assis
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