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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory - Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels (Hardcover, None ed.)
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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory - Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels (Hardcover, None ed.)
Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
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This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one
of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major
theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of
Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist
poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a “new
narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of
Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the
language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in
terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of
language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts
his “new narrative.” Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly
original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and
attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the
“outsider” or “marginal,” the iconoclastic and wildly
innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the
Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of
“eccentric.” Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese
but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one
of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as
in theory. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed
worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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