Books by "Joaquim Machado de Assis"
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This “watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories. Widely acclaimed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), as well as “another Kafka” (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siècle Rio de Janeiro—a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, “the accomplished duo” (Wall Street Journal) behind the “landmark . . . heroically translated” volume (The New Yorker) of the Collected Stories of Machado de Assis, include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories from the seven story collections published during Machado’s life—featuring all-time favorites such as the celebrated novella “The Alienist”; the tragicomic “parable of bureaucracy, madness, and power” (Los Angeles Review of Books), “Midnight Mass”; “The Cane”; and “Father Against Mother.” Ultimately, Machado de Assis: 26 Stories affirms Machado’s status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.
A versão digital de A história da literatura ocidental reúne os quatro volumes em um, mas ainda preserva os índices individuais. No primeiro volume, o leitor encontrará rigorosa introdução, em que o autor expõe seu método de abordagem e sua práxis como historiador e crítico literário. Carpeaux, neste volume, vai buscar as origens da nossa literatura ocidental na Grécia antiga e no mundo romano, além de acrescentar os fundamentos cristãos e o papel do cristianismo na afirmação da nossa cultura e literatura. O leitor também encontrará o que o mestre chamou de A fundação da Europa e de suas literaturas e a época medieval. Também faz parte deste volume a transição entre a literatura da Idade Média e o Renascimento. No segundo volume, o autor faz a exegese do Barroco e do Classicismo no mundo ocidental. Aqui estão analisados a poesia, o teatro, a epopeia e o romance picaresco, entre outros temas e autores, como Cervantes, Góngora, Shakespeare e Molière. Ainda no segundo volume, continua o estudo do neobarroco, o Classicismo racionalista, o pré-romantismo, os enciclopedistas e o que chama de o Último Classicismo (Classicismo Alemão, Alfieri, Chénier, Jane Austen). O terceiro tomo refere-se à literatura do Romantismo até nossos dias. Um diversificado e denso estudo sobre as causas sociais e estéticas do Romantismo. Os grandes autores do período foram acuradamente estudados (um elenco incomparável e uma hermenêutica rigorosa). Nele também está incluído o nosso Romantismo com substancial contribuição para entendimento de autores brasileiros como José de Alencar, Castro Alves, Álvares de Azevedo e até mesmo o Machado de Assis da sua primeira fase, cunhada de romântica. Ainda neste terceiro volume, estão o realismo e o naturalismo e seu espírito de época. Balzac, Machado, Eça, Tolstoi, Zola, Dostoiévski, Melville, Baudelaire, e mais Aluísio Azevedo, Augusto dos Anjos, Graça Aranha e Mário de Andrade, entre tantos autores, aqui são estudados. No último e quarto volume, o leitor
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
2018 · Liveright Publishing
New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. 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 recognition today. Drawn to the master’s psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siècle Rio de Janeiro, a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters, acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have now combined Machado’s seven short-story collections into one volume, featuring seventy-six stories, a dozen appearing in English for the first time. Born in the outskirts of Rio, Machado displayed a precocious interest in books and languages and, despite his impoverished background, miraculously became a well-known intellectual figure in Brazil’s capital by his early twenties. His daring narrative techniques and coolly ironic voice resemble those of Thomas Hardy and Henry James, but more than either of these writers, Machado engages in an open playfulness with his reader—as when his narrator toys with readers’ expectations of what makes a female heroine in “Miss Dollar,” or questions the sincerity of a slave’s concern for his dying master in “The Tale of the Cabriolet.” Predominantly set in the late nineteenth-century aspiring world of Rio de Janeiro—a city in the midst of an intense transformation from colonial backwater to imperial metropolis—the postcolonial realism of Machado’s stories anticipates a dominant theme of twentieth-century literature. Readers witness the bourgeoisie of Rio both at play, and, occasionally, attempting to be serious, as depicted by the chief character of “The Alienist,” who makes naively grandiose claims for his Brazilian hometown at the expense of the cultural capitals of Europe. Signifiers of new wealth and social status abound through the landmarks that populate Machado’s stories, enlivening a world in the throes of transformation: from the elegant gardens of Passeio Público and the vibrant Rua do Ouvidor—the long, narrow street of fashionable shops, theaters and cafés, “the Via Dolorosa of long-suffering husbands”—to the port areas of Saúde and Gamboa, and the former Valongo slave market. One of the greatest masters of the twentieth century, Machado reveals himself to be an obsessive collector of other people’s lives, who writes: “There are no mysteries for an author who can scrutinize every nook and cranny of the human heart.” Now, The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis brings together, for the first time in English, all of the stories contained in the seven collections published in his lifetime, from 1870 to 1906. A landmark literary event, this majestic translation reintroduces a literary giant who must finally be integrated into the world literary canon.