Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including Jose Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as another Kafka. Philip Roth has said of him that like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering. And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that he's funny as hell.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300180824
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214401337
Product Key Features
Book Title
Machado De Assis: a Literary Life
Author
K. David Jackson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
237mm
Item Width
166mm
Item Weight
654g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
K. David Jackson
Series Title
Major Figures in Spanish and Latin American Literature and the Arts
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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