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Machado de Assis

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Ma·cha·do de As·sis  (mä-shäd d ä-ss), Joachim María 1839-1908.
Brazilian writer whose novels, including Dom Casmurro (1900), reveal his wit and pessimistic but empathic view of humanity.
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No nosso caso, e inescapavel chamar o testemunho de Machado de Assis em Esau e Jaco.
A modernidade republicana by Chaves de Mello, Maria Tereza / Tempo - Revista do Departamento de Historia da UFF
Using examples from authors such as Machado de Assis, Erico Verissimo and Jorge Amado, the author explains the notion of the carnivalesque defunto (carnival of the dead), and how this literary device is used to both undermine and strengthen Brazilian institutions, beliefs and politics.
The carnivalesque defunto; death and the dead in modern Brazilian ... by Reference & Research Book News
Momentarily professorial, Roth is quick to acknowledge that it's not original, pointing out that Epitaph for a Small Winner, by the 19th-century Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, employs the same narrative point of view.
Roth: Indignation Narrator Not All the Way Dead! Maybe Just On ... by Leon Neyfakh / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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