Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (Major Figures in Spanish and Latin American Literature and the Arts) by Jackson, K. David - 2015-05-26

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 336 pages, index. Slight shelf wear to the jacket. Text clean..

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.

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Hardback. New. 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… Read More

Yale Univ Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. 320 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches.

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