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by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Translated by Helen Caldwell Original title: Dom Casmurro
Dom Casmurro vies with Epitaph of a Small Winner for the title of Machado’s most famous novel and is at the top of school and university reading lists in Brazil, though perhaps not for the right reasons. On the surface, it’s a sort of Bildungsroman, (more...)
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Translated by Helen Caldwell Original title: Memorial de Ayres
The last of Machado de Assis’s novels, published in 1908, the year of his death, Counselor Ayres’ Memorial has been regarded as his swan-song and, given its melancholic tone, his ‘reconciliation with life’. In fact it is much more interesting than that. (more...)