Quincas Borba (Library of Latin America) - Softcover

De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195106822 ISBN 13: 9780195106824

Verlag: Oxford University Press USA, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Quincas Borba. Garnier Col. Coleao de Autores CŽlebres 1998. 1 Vol. 280 pp. Rœstica

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Críticas:

"In superbly funny books, [Machado] described the abnormalities of alienation, perversion, domination, cruelty and madness. He deconstructed empire with a thoroughness and an esthetic equilibrium that place him in a class by himself."--K. David Jackson, The New York Times Book Review "Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis...[is] a genuine subversive, bent on overturning convention but always with an air of leisurely nonchalance....Quincas Borba consolidates the triumph of a Latin American protomodernist."--Jonathan Keates, The New York Times Book Review "[A] spirited translation."--Jonathan Keates, The New York Times Book Review "A graceful new translation of a major novel by the master ironist who remains Brazil's greatest writer of fiction.... A great, teasing, profoundly entertaining book: An unforgettable portrayal of a materially oriented Don Quixote that's also that rariety in any literature--a genuine philosophical novel."--Kirkus

Reseña del editor:

Machado de Assis is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. Quincas Borba is one of his four most important novels and features some of the same characters as Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. The main character of this novel is a well-meaning country fellow who moves to the city with his dog, Quincas Borba, named after the mad philosopher who was his previous owner. As the dog's new owner explores the social, political, and commercial world of the city, he also tries to come to grips with the motives that lie behind every human action and begins to ponder what madness really is. Despite the "heavy" messages behind this book, the narration is light-hearted, allowing readers to laugh both at the foibles of society and at themselves.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195106822
• ISBN 13: 9780195106824
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320