Machado De Assis: 262 books

Failed composer Maestro Romão, ill, is seeking desperately to complete a piece of music he had abandoned in 1779, shortly after his marriage. In this brief and moving tale by the Brazilian master Machado de Assis, one of his finest, the frustrated artist Romão struggles momentarily against the oblivion...

The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis. Length: 4,000 words. Date of English translation: 2012.

Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for their unexpected dismissal from class. Genre: short story Length: 3,000 words Translated...

"Our disagreement has a natural explanation. I am a single girl, full of complications, dreams, ambitions, and poetry; you are already a woman of the house, a calm and happy wife, soon to be a mother; you see things through a different lens." Raquel and her married friend Luísa exchange...

"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. And she shifted her gaze from one to the next, to see if the pattern was the same, and she found...

Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is the great Brazilian author of Philosopher or Dog? and Epitaph of a Small Winner, whose work is admired by writers as different as Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, Woody Allen and Susan Sontag. Taken from his mature period, these dazzling stories echo Poe and Gogol, anticipate...

Um dos primeiros romances publicados por Machado de Assis, Helena faz parte da fase romântica do autor. Por meio dos conflitos acerca do passado e do futuro da protagonista que dá nome ao livro, o autor aborda o amor proibido pela sociedade e pela religião; e, enquanto constrói os cenários e...

Capitu, a espantosa menina de "olhos oblíquos e dissimulados", de "olhos de ressaca"; Machado nos legou um incrível mistério, um mistério até hoje indecifrado. Há quase cem anos os estudiosos e especialistas esmiuçam, analisam sob todos os aspectos. Em vão. Embora o autor se tenha dado ao...

Dom Casmurro. Um dos mais famosos romances brasileiros de todos os tempos, tem como protagonista o mais-que-famoso par central Bentinho e Capitu além de conter o caso narrativo mais discutido de nossa literatura, a traição (ou não) de Capitu. E como outras obras de Machado da última fase, também...

Páginas recolhidas é uma miscelânea de escritos de Machado, a variedade do livro não estando só na temática das narrativas, mas também nos gêneros dos textos. A maioria deles havia sido publicada anteriormente no Rio de Janeiro, "nas folhas volantes do jornalismo", sendo recolhidas...

It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor where he is waiting up alone walks Dona Conceição, the thirty-year-old wife of the...

Bentinho Santiago, cosseted only child of a rich widow, lives next door to Capitu, the daughter of a lowly government official. As childhood friendship turns to adolescent love, an obstacle to the union exists in the form of a vow made by Bentinho's mother before his birth: her son is to be a priest....

Simão Bacamarte recebeu-o com a alegria própria de um sábio, uma alegria abotoada de circunspeção até o pescoço.~ — Estou muito contente — disse ele. — Notícias do nosso povo? — perguntou o boticário com a voz trêmula. O alienista fez um gesto magnífico, e respondeu: —...