Author: JACKSON, K. DAVID (KENNETH DAVID)
Title: Machado de Assis : a literary life / K. David Jackson
Description: New Haven : Yale University Press 2015. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; xvii. 336 pages ; 25 cm. Summary; 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.' Subjects; Machado de Assis 1839-1908 — Criticism and interpretation. Biography & autobiography: literary ; Literary studies: 19th century. Weight in Kg appr.:

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