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Title: |
The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil |
| Series: |
Hackett Classics |
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| By (author): |
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Edited and translated by: John Charles Chasteen |
| ISBN10-13: |
1603848533 : 9781603848534 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
215.9x139.7mm |
| Pages: |
152 |
| Weight: |
.283 Kg. |
| Published: |
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. - March 2013 |
| List Price: |
40.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Brazil |
Accompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-known short stories bring nineteenth-century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers. |
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"This beautifully translated selection of stories is a wonderful introduction to Brazil’s -- and Latin America’s -- greatest writer. Chasteen has done us all a great service by providing this wonderful volume to introduce and entice readers into the wonders of Brazilian culture". -- Marshall C Eakin, Vanderbilt University
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"Chasteen’s free translations convey the spirit of Machado’s stories; they feel like what Machado might have written in today’s English. Chasteen’s translation of The Alienist is exceptionally good: I have never enjoyed the story as much in Portuguese as in Chasteen’s version, which captures the narrative shifts and reversals with great timing". -- Dain Borges, University of Chicago
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Chasteen has translated and edited seven short stories and one novella published during the period 1881-1906 by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil's most renowned writer and social satirist of the nineteenth century. [The] introduction. . . provides a useful, though relatively broad, snapshot of the century and historical era in which Machado de Assis lived and wrote. The brief preface to each story. . . demonstrates an interest on the part of Machado de Assis in showing everyday life, popular culture, women, male power and pretensions, and the politics of the elite. . . . Intended as an accessible and affordable introduction to Brazilian literature or as an accompaniment to a course on Latin American or Brazilian history. Recommended for classroom use and for those with an interest in world literature." -- Colonial Latin American Historical Review ,
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