Widely acclaimed as a progenitor of twentieth-centuryLatin American fiction, Joaquim MariaMachado de Assis (1839–1908), the son of a mulattofather and a washerwoman, was hailed in his lifetime as Braz
"Examines how racial identity and race relations are expressed in the writings of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), Brazil's foremost author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur
The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but als
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 psycho
