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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 ...
- Novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic
- 1864–1908
- Machado, "The Warlock from Cosme Velho"
Mar 25, 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- September 29, 1908
- June 21, 1839
- Dom Casmurro.
- Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas.
- O Alienista.
- Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis, Celso Favaretto (Primary Contributor), Gregory Rabassa (Translator), David T. Haberly (Introduction)
Jun 6, 2018 · Machado de Assis National Library of Brazil. “The Collected Stories” reveals the arc of Machado’s career, from the straightforward love stories to the cerebral and unpredictable later...
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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...
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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...
Nov 15, 2018 · The cerebral, playful and mystical-mysterious stories of Machado de Assis consistently reveal, affirm and depend upon a fundamentally religious sense of things.
