The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Library of Latin America) - Hardcover

Assis, Joachim Maria Machado De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195101693 ISBN 13: 9780195101690

Verlag: OUP USA, 1998

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Book by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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Críticas

[comment for series] "With the Library of Latin America, Oxford has opened up a new frontier that may prove as exciting and enigmatic as the continent itself."--The Herald, South Carolina "The wit and irony of the Brazilian classic are palpable."--Thomas E. Skidmore "Language has always been a barrier to our unity as the Americas, and most especially to our reading of each other's literatures. Now with this new series by Oxford University Press, the library of Latin America is literally open to North Americans and to English speakers everywhere. This is an important series for anyone who is prevented from knowing the classics of the southern half of this hemisphere because of not knowing the language. Bienvenidos to these new readers!"--Julia Alvarez "With a masterful translation by Rabassa and a contextual foreword and afterword that tell us that the work anticipates Calvino and Garcia Marquez, this book is recommended for collections rich in Latin American and literary holdings."--Library Journal "Machado de Assis wrote some of the most deliriously adventurous fiction of the last century."--Sarah Kerr, Lingua Franca "The lightning bolts flung down at us by the gods are meant to wound. What reach us from Machado's Parnassus are, instead, flashes of truth that make the darkness recede."--Lauren Weiner, The New Criterion "Written at the same moment of literary history when Henry James was writing its aesthetic opposite, The Portrait of a Lady, Machado de Assis's novel...belongs to a long line of brilliantly odd and (realtively) outrageous works like Laurence Stern's Tristam Shandy and Xavier de Maistre's Voyage Around My Room.... A very great novel indeed."--Gary Amdahl, The Nation "Although Machado has been available before in the U.S....he, like many of the others represented in LoLA, have not been given the recognition they deserve. One hopes that these beautifully designed, carefully translated volumes will rectify that."--Publishers Weekly "Machado offers the infectious pleasures of a 19th-century writer who is more modern than some of our so-called moderns.... The mystery of Machado is that he combines distanced irony with intimations of encroaching darkness, self-reflexive antics with soul."--Bill Marx, Boston Globe "Machado de Assis is Brazil's greatest novelist, and ranks high among the most appealing writers in the world.... Though he lived mainly in the 19th century, Machado possesses an almost postmodern sensibility--playful, ironic and tricky."--Book World

Reseña del editor

Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil, but his work has only recently become known to the English-speaking world. This new translation of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, first published in 1881, now brings Machado de Assis's sardonic wit and keen appreciation of human foibles to a much larger audience.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195101693
• ISBN 13: 9780195101690
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Sá Rego Enylton De