Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Author, Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Author, Robert L. Scott-Buccleuch, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $31.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0845-8
It's the simplest of stories: boy falls in love with girl next door, they grow up, marry and have a child. Enter jealousy, exit happiness and boy/narrator, Betinho, who goes on to write his magnum opus, the History of the Suburbs . However, Betinho...
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Author, Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Author, Machado de Assis, Author Peter Owen Publishers $34.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0772-7
De Assis (1839-1908) displays in his ninth novel the dry wit and measured understanding of human nature that earned him his reputation as Brazil's first major writer. Avoiding the explosive political situation in late-19th-century Brazil (slavery...
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Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Author, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Author, Carlos Felipe Moises, Editor Oxford University Press, USA $35 (304p) ISBN 978-0-19-510810-1
Like Balzac's Human Comedy, Machado de Assis's major novels provide readers with a social physiognomy--a map of surface phenomena that indicate deeper cultural meaning. This novel, written in 1904, harks back to the waning years of Brazil's monarchy,
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Machado de Assis, trans. from the Portugese by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. Penguin Classics, $17 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-0-14-313503-6
Machado de Assis’s brilliantly idiosyncratic 19th-century Brazilian classic stands alongside Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy as it follows the travails of self-described wastrel and mediocrity Brás Cubas, whose lone achievement in life has been as...
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson. Liveright, $29.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-09068-7
Translators Costa and Patterson sharpen the bite of Machado de Assis’s delightful 1891 satire of a social climber entering Brazilian society. Before eccentric philospher Quincas Borba died, he entrusted the care of his dog, also named Quincas Borba,
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