Machado de Assis: 26 Stories

by Machado de Assis

Book Overview

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 psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro--a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, "the accomplished duo" (Wall Street...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631495984
• ISBN13: 9781631495984
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"