Machado de Assis
1) Dom Casmurro
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Portuguese
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"Poucos romances examinam as artimanhas do ciúme com tanta sutileza como Dom Casmurro. Publicado em 1899, o livro permanece uma das mais fascinantes radiografias da traição, que, como o leitor mais atento perceberá, são supostamente duas: a de Capitu, exposta pelo marido Bentinho, e a da própria narrativa, revelada pela maneira como Bentinho modifica os fatos para corroborar suas suspeitas matrimoniais. Tudo isso se manifesta com graça e inteligência...
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English
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"Acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson offer this new rendition of Machado de Assis' classic novel. When the Collected Stories of Machado de Assis was published in 2018, it was hailed as a "literary event" by the LARB and as "landmark... heroically translated" by Benjamin Moser of The New Yorker. Now the "accomplished duo," (Sam Sacks, WSJ) returns with a fresh translation of Machado's definitive work, The Posthumous Memoirs...
3) Dom Casmurro
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Language
English
Description
"Adolescent love between Bentinho, an only child of a rich widow, and Capitu, the daughter of a lowly government offical, is made impossible by a vow made before Bentinho's birth."--
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839-1908)--the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves--was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963 and still lacks proper...
7) Helena
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
In 1850 Rio de Janeiro, Estacio tries to uncover the mysterious past of Helena, his presumed half sister, who has been brought to the family home and with whom he falls in love. --
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"Includes 53 stories spanning evolution of short fiction in Brazil as well as Hispanic America across a broad range of writing from colonial era and 19th century to modern favorites such as Lugones, Quiroga, Lima Barreto, Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, Ribeyro, Castellanos, Lispector, Ferré, and Monterroso, in versions by distinguished translators. An essay by the editor traces evolution of the genre. Brief headnotes for each period and author and a short...
