A Chapter of Hats: Selected Stories

Autor Machado de Assis Traducere de John Gledson

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2009

Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is the great Brazilian author of Philosopher or Dog? and Epitaph of a Small Winner, whose work is admired by writers as different as Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, Woody Allen and Susan Sontag. Taken from his mature period, these dazzling stories echo Poe and Gogol, anticipate Joyce, and have been compared to the writing of Chekhov, Maupassant and Henry James, yet his modern sensibility and clear-eyed humour remain utterly unique.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780747596790
ISBN-10: 0747596794
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Machado de Assis' work is the foundation on which the South American literary boom was built.

Notă biografică

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was born and lived his whole life in Rio de Janeiro. The son of poor parents, and mulatto, he worked his way to a successful career as a civil servant and a writer. He was revered (though not understood) in his lifetime, and was unanimously elected President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters when it was founded in 1896. He is still universally regarded as the greatest Brazilian writer.

John Gledson is Professor Emeritus of Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool. He has produced Brazilian editions of Machado de Assis's stories and newspaper columns, and is also the translator of his novel Dom Casmurro (Oxford University Press, 1997), along with novels by Milton Hatoum and critical works by Roberto Schwarz, among others.

Recenzii

'Time and again throughout these sharp, elegant and always brilliantly understated slices of controlled madness, de Assis ... achieves the elusive offbeat surrealist effect that Paul Auster has been pursuing for his entire career'
'Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James'
''He was one of the few writers who not only received a state funeral, but actually deserved it'
'John Gledson's zesty translation and introduction are great strengths of the collection ... The atmosphere of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1800s is evoked ... Yet many of these stories could have been written about our own times'

Descriere

Translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson
'Dazzling ... guaranteed to leave most unsuspecting readers eager for more' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

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