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Quincas Borba (Paperback, New Ed)
Joachim Maria Machado de Assis; Translated by Gregory Rabassa; Edited by Celso Favaretto, David T. Haberly
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R1,323
Discovery Miles 13 230
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Machado de Assis is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. Quincas Borba is one of his four most important novels and features some of the same characters as Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. The main character of this novel is a well-meaning country fellow who moves to the city with his dog, Quincas Borba, named after the mad philosopher who was his previous owner. As the dog's new owner explores the social, political, and commercial world of the city, he also tries to come to grips with the motives that lie behind every human action and begins to ponder what madness really is. Despite the "heavy" messages behind this book, the narration is light-hearted, allowing readers to laugh both at the foibles of society and at themselves.
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Dom Casmurro (Paperback, Revised)
Joachim Maria Machado de Assis; Translated by John Gledson; Afterword by Joao Adolfo Hansen
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R504
R408
Discovery Miles 4 080
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This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century.
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