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Machado de Assis

Birth date: June 21, 1839

Died: September 29, 1908

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Romance

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(داستان‌های کوتاه امریکای لاتین (دورۀ یک‌جلدی - Machado de Assis, Julio Cortázar, Roberto González Echevarría, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, João do Rio, João Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Reinaldo Arenas, Juan Rulfo, عبدالله کوثری, María Luisa Bombal, Rubén Darío, Mario Benedetti, Horacio Quiroga, Cristina

Antología de la novela corta universal - Jorge Luis Borges, Machado de Assis, Graham Greene, Truman Capote, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Miguel Delibes, Heinrich Böll, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Saki, Sholem Aleichem, Santha Rama Rau, Benito Pérez Galdós, Henry Lawson, Leopoldo Ala

Contos brasileiros 2 - Clarice Lispector, João Antônio, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Machado de Assis, Moacyr Scliar, Murilo Rubião, Wander Piroli

The Devil's Church and Other Stories - Machado de Assis, Jack Schmitt, Lorie Ishimatsu

As Cem Melhores Crônicas Brasileiras - Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, Machado de Assis, Rubem Braga, Sérgio Porto, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Nelson Rodrigues, Fernando Sabino, Millôr Fernandes, Clarice Lispector, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Mario Quintana, João do Rio, Luis Fernando Verissimo, João Ubald

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philoSophie rated it

8 years ago

text Ο Φρενίατρος

Ένα ατέλειωτο παιχνίδι νεύρων ανάμεσα στη λογική και στην παραφροσύνη, στο υγιές και σε εκείνο που χρήζει θεραπείας. Υπόρρητο και ταυτόχρονα εξαιρετικά απτό το χιούμορ του κειμένου, με τον αφηγητή να σχολιάζει σε καίρια σημεία της πλοκής, τα επεισόδια που διαδραματίζονται στο Ιταγκουαΐ είναι ευκρινή...

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Haidji - Books...and...Books! rated it

9 years ago

text Did Capitu cheat on Bento or not?

This book is a first-person narrative about the life of Bento.Bento recalls his youth and adulthood, and tells about his friendships, education, romantic life, and family relationships.Machado de Assis tells a story about a man consumed by his own jealousy. This book contains one of the most intrigu...

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Mommy, am I cult? rated it

10 years ago

text Memorial de Aires

Definitely the less impressive of Machado's works. None of the things I like about him is present in this novel: no humor, no acute critique, no spirited characters, no language playings... None of it. I couldn't care much for the characters. Feels like Machado burned all of his best in previous wor...

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it

10 years ago

text You Don't Love the Same Woman Twice: "The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil" by Machado de Assis, John Charles Chasteen (translator)

Published 2013. Let’s talk about luxury. Not that one, but the one that goes through the objects that I covet. One of these objects is the 1600-page-book “Os Romances de Machado de Assis” (the Novels of Machado de Assis) edited by the Glaciar publishing House, containing among others “Memórias Pós...

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