Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
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Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
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Narrated by:
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Lincoln Hoppe
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A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.
Widely acclaimed as a progenitor of 20th-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963, and still lacks proper recognition today.
Aware of this lacuna and drawn to the master's psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro—a world populated with down-and-out aristocrats, parvenus, and struggling spinsters—Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have combined all seven of Machado's short-story collections appearing in his lifetime into one volume featuring 76 stories, a dozen appearing in English for the first time. Machado's daring narrative techniques and postcolonial realism anticipated the dominant themes of 20th century literature and this majestic translation reintroduces him as a literary giant who must finally be integrated into the world literary canon.
©2018 Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson (P)2019 Recorded Booksfrom Rio Tales (1870)
tracks 3–9: “August’s Secret”
from Midnight Tales (1873)
track 10: “Luìs Duarte’s Wedding”
from Miscellaneous Papers (1882)
tracks 11–23: “The Alienist”
track 24: “How to Be a Bigwig”
tracks 25–28: “Dona Benedita”
track 29: “The Loan”
track 30: “The Most Serene Republic”
track 31: “The Mirror”
track 32: “A Visit from Alcibiades”
from Undated Stories (1884)
tracks 33–37: “The Devil’s Church”
tracks 38–40: “Posthumous Picture Gallery”
track 41: “Ex Cathedra”
track 42: “The Academies of Siam”
from Assorted Stories (1896)
track 43: “Fame”
track 44: “The Gentleman’s Companion”
track 45: “Mr Diplomat”
track 46: “Life!”
track 47: “The Canon, or the Metaphysics of Style”
from Collected Pages (1899)
track 48: “The Cane”
track 49: “Midnight Mass”
track 50: “Canary Thoughts”
from Relics From and Old House (1906)
track 51: “Father Against Mother”
tracks 52–57: “Maria Cora”
track 58: “The Tale of the Cabriolet”
Only selected stories from the collected stories
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