Babelguides: California University Press

California University Press

(Anthology)

An anthology with sixteen Brazilian authors, first published in 1967 but still worth having today because created with such authority, professionalism and passion. Published by a US-based University press it may need a bit of tracking down in the UK.

There are here, (more...)

Helena [Buy Direct]

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Translated by Helen Caldwell
Original title: Helena

Esau and Jacob [Buy Direct]

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Translated by Helen Caldwell
Original title: Esaú e Jacó

The Psychiatrist and Other Stories [Buy Direct]

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Translated by H. Caldwell

This selection of twelve of the best of Machado de Assis’s short stories (he wrote altogether almost two hundred), is headed by ‘The Psychiatrist’. This is in fact one of his most important works, running to some 50 pages, (more...)

Dom Casmurro [Buy Direct]

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...)

The Uruguay

by Jose Basilio de Gama
Translated by Richard Burton
Original title: O Uraguai

Published in 1769, The Uruguay is one of several late colonial verse epics on the Indianist theme, and the most admired by the Romantic nationalist writers who took up the subject from the middle of the next century as an expression of Brazil’s literary independence. (more...)

Counselor Ayres’ Memorial

by Joaquim Machado De Assis
Translated by Helen Caldwell
Original title: Memorial de Ayres

Counselor Ayres’ Memorial

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...)

Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology [Buy Direct]

by Henri Michaux
Translated by David (also the editor) Ball

She-Wolf and Other Stories

by Giovanni Verga
Translated by G Cecchetti

1 2 Next >>