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Machado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story
writers who ever lived. What seem at first to be stately social
satires reveal unanticipated depths through hints of darkness and
winking surrealism. This new selection of his finest work,
translated by the prize-winning Daniel Hahn, showcases the many
facets of his mercurial genius. A brilliant scientist opens the
first asylum in his home town, only to start finding signs of
insanity all around him. A young lieutenant basks in praise of his
new position, but in solitude feels his identity fray into nothing.
The reading of a much-loved, respected elder statesman's journals
reveals hidden thoughts of merciless cruelty.
"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in
August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of
the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of
the narrator's life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental
novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis' definitive
work-a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to
the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this
coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin
Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado's career, as his
flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic,
amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Bras Cubas describes
his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his
bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over
nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist
fiction, Bras Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in
the Time of Cholera.
"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in
August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of
the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of
the narrator's life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental
novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis' definitive
work-a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to
the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this
coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin
Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado's career, as his
flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic,
amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Bras Cubas describes
his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his
bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over
nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist
fiction, Bras Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in
the Time of Cholera.
'I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and
is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now
writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy
nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave may have given Cubas
the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has
certainly not dampened his sense of humour. Epitaph of a Small
Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.
A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable
masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas
Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but
also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (also translated as Epitaph of
a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable
aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the
worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and
half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare-brained
philosophies and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave.
Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty and ahead of its time, the novel
has been compared to works by Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce, Nabokov,
Borges and Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers
around the world.
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Dom Casmurro - A Novel (Hardcover)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson
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Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson’s critically acclaimed
translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected
Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers
to one of Brazil’s most ground-breaking authors. Hailed as “the
greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag),
Machado’s genius is on full display in this fresh translation of
the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento
Santiago, an engaging yet unreliable narrator, suspects his wife,
Capitu, of having an affair with his closest friend. Withdrawn and
obsessive, our antihero mines the origins of their love story: from
childhood neighbours playing innocently in the backyard to his
brief spell in a seminary to marriage and the birth of their
child—whom, he fears, does not resemble him. A gripping domestic
drama brimming with Machado’s signature humour, this is another
stunningly modern tale from the progenitor of twentieth-century
fiction.
In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century
Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather
undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with
philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear
forerunner of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges,
"Epitaph for a Small Winner," first published in 1880, is one of
the wittiest self-portraits in literary history as well as "one of
the masterpieces of Brazilian literature" (Salman Rushdie).
This is a fictional memoir by the nineteenth-century Brazilian
writer whom Philip Roth has described as 'a great ironist, a tragic
comedian'. "Dom Casmurro" is the story of Bento Santiago, an
affluent citizen of Rio who comes to believe in his old age that
his beloved wife, Capitu, betrayed him with his best friend for
many years. In telling the sometimes sad, sometimes raucous tale of
his love for and loss, through jealousy, of Capitu, he reconstructs
- and sometimes wildly reimagines - the past in order to make the
present more bearable.
A progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim
Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), was hailed in his lifetime as
Brazil's greatest writer. This majestic translation combines all
his short-story collections appearing in his lifetime and
reintroduces de Assis as a literary giant who must be integrated
into the world literary canon.
Bentinho Santiago, cosseted only child of a rich widow, lives next
door to Capitu, the daughter of a lowly government official. As
childhood friendship turns to adolescent love, an obstacle to the
union exists in the form of a vow made by Bentinho s mother before
his birth: her son is to be a priest. The lovers situation appears
hopeless, but resourceful Capitu is not easily discouraged. De
Assis weaves a powerful and ultimately tragic story of love and
disillusionment, full of the subtle irony that is the hallmark of
his writing. In Capitu, his enigmatic heroine, he has also created
one of the most fascinating characters in Brazilian fiction."
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Machado de Assis - 26 Stories (Paperback)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson; Foreword by Michael Wood
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R391
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Acclaimed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America"
by Susan Sontag, as well as "another Kafka" by Allen Ginsberg,
Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his
psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro.
Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, "the accomplished duo"
(The Wall Street Journal) behind the "landmark...heroically
translated" volume (The New Yorker) of The Collected Stories of
Machado de Assis (ISBN 978 0 87140 496 1), include twenty-six
chronologically ordered stories, Machado de Assis affirms Machado's
status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated
into the world literary canon.
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Esau and Jacob (Paperback)
MacHado De Assis; Introduction by Helen Caldwell
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R1,556
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Dom Casmurro (Paperback)
Elizabeth Hardwick, MacHado De Assis
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R349
R286
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Esaú e Jacob (Hardcover)
MacHado De Assis
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R1,672
R1,574
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Poesias (Hardcover)
MacHado De Assis
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R1,756
R1,651
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Poesias (Paperback)
MacHado De Assis
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Braz Cubas (Hardcover)
MacHado De Assis
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R1,528
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