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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory - Language, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels (Paperback)
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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory - Language, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels (Paperback)
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.
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