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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ mɐˈɾi.ɐ mɐˈʃadu dʒ(i) ɐˈsis]), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer.
Jun 17, 2024 · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is among the greatest of Brazil’s writers. He was a poet, novelist, and short-story writer whose art is rooted in the traditions of European culture. His masterpiece, the novel Dom Casmurro (1899), is a haunting journey into a mind warped by jealousy.
Jul 2, 2018 · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Knight of the Imperial Order of the Rose, founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, has long been Brazil’s ambassador to the international society of...
Machado de Assis redefined the concept of a prolific writer. Besides authoring a lengthy and outstanding list of novels and short-stories, Machado wrote poetry, drama, innumerable critical essays on theater and literature, and adapted French plays and translated novels.
Jun 6, 2018 · “The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis” traces the arc of an influential career that grew increasingly cerebral and surreal as it progressed.
May 22, 2023 · “Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
Sep 13, 2008 · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis died 100 years ago this month and has since gone from being a fringe figure in the English-speaking world to a literary favorite hailed as an unjustly-neglected...
Machado de Assis (Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis), jornalista, contista, cronista, romancista, poeta e teatrólogo, nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, em 21 de junho de 1839, e faleceu também no Rio de Janeiro, em 29 de setembro de 1908. É o fundador da cadeira nº. 23 da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Machado de Assis is no longer unknown among us. Four of his novels and some fifteen or so short stories have now appeared in English and have been greeted with a kind of indignant wonder that this Brazilian author who was born in 1839 and died in 1908 was not even a name to us.
