Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the m[...]
The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collecti[...]
Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878--1886, his most radically experimental period, this selection of short fiction by Brazil's greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac to philosophical to impishly ironic. Including Machado's classic essay on world literature -- also ap[...]
Vansinnesläkaren känns fortfarande som en universell och modern historia. Manin att till varje pris sätta etikett på folk var densamma då som nu. Vetenskapsmannen Simão Bacamarte drar ut som en Don Quijote, full av idealism och gravallvar, för att kämpa mot väderkvrnar och vinsäckar och si[...]