The Posthumous Memoirs Of Bras Cubas

Author : Kenneth David Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180829
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machado de Assis written by Kenneth David Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as “another Kafka.” Philip Roth has said of him that “like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering.” And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that “he's funny as hell.”

Author : Machado de Assis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epitaph of a Small Winner written by Machado de Assis and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628975474
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resurrection written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machado de Assis's first novel visits themes the author developed exquisitely throughout his career including marriage, memory, and perspective. In this insightful translation by Karen Sherwood Sotelino, and with an introduction by José Luiz Passos, the novel reveals the author’s early experiment in drawing out psychological and sociological issues of his times. Readers familiar with his mature works will recognize the progression from infatuation, through passion, doubt, and toxic jealousy, as experienced by protagonists Félix and Lívia in 19th century Rio de Janeiro.

Author : Myung Mi Kim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520231317
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commons written by Myung Mi Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems in Commons are at once global and intensely personal and emotional. An immensely talented poet, Myung Mi Kim loves language - its internal rhymes, alliterations, and diverse rhythms. Caught off guard by the beauty and precision of Kim's language and the exquisite images she so deftly conjures, we are drawn unwittingly into a web of fragmentary memories that subvert what we think we know about the violent history that haunts her and never ceases to demand recognition."--Elaine Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context, and co-editor of Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism

Author : B. Scott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137346841
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Lightness in World Literature written by B. Scott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the apparent ubiquity of light literature, and despite the greater cultural prestige it has been afforded in recent decades, very little has been written on the adjective that actually defines this category. What, precisely, does it signify, and what are some of the key strategies by which the effect of lightness is achieved within literary discourse? In this original and engaging study, Bede Scott explores the aesthetic quality of lightness as demonstrated by a diverse range of narratives – spanning four different centuries and five different countries. In each case, he focuses on a specific 'type' of lightness, whether it be the refined triviality of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, the ludic tendencies of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, or the 'exhilarating and primitive vitality' of Voltaire's Candide. By bringing together such disparate sources, Scott makes a strong case for the universality of this particular aesthetic value, while also subjecting its underlying structural features to close critical scrutiny.

Author : Marie France
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141389346
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lais of Marie De France written by Marie France and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband.

Author : Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199761671
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant written by Manuel Antônio de Almeida and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the neer-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854-55, Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant comprises a series of humorous vignettes held together by the adventures and misfortunes of this young rogue--who matures from a handful of a toddler into a ruffian of a boy and an idler of a young man--and his father, also named Leonardo. Manuel Antonio De Almeida tells a story in everyday language that is rich in detail of life on the streets and the modest circumstances of the free poor of Rio de Janeiro. Through satirical accounts of the escapades of characters who always seem close to the brink of some personal crisis or social misstep, yet who manage to pull through by hook or by crook, Almeida makes a subtle and incisive comment on Brazilian urban society and culture of the nineteenth century. Now available in a new and lively translation, Memoirs of a Military Sergeant occupies an important position in the satirical literature of Brazil and the world.

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816617821
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agua Viva written by Clarice Lispector and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.

Author : Lima Barreto
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141395710
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma written by Lima Barreto and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us ... ' Policarpo Quaresma - fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary - is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures, whether it is petitioning for Brazil's national language to be changed, buying a farm to prove the richness and fertility of the land, or offering support to government forces as they suppress a military revolt - results in ridicule and disaster. Quixotic and hapless, Quaresma's dreams will eventually be his undoing. Funny, despairing, moving and absurd, Lima Barreto's masterpiece shows a man and a country caught in the violent clash between illusion and reality, hope and decline, sanity and madness.

Author : Roberto Schwarz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322399
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism written by Roberto Schwarz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA translation of Schwarz's study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908)./div