K. David Jackson is Professor of Portuguese at Yale University.

Lionel Trilling once wrote that literature makes us aware of 'the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.' Jackson has gathered between these covers Brazilian masters of subversion from Machado de Assis in the 19th Century to our contemporaries such as Lygia Fagundes Telles, Nelida Pinon and Moacyr Scliar. The translations are impeccable and Jackson's introductions are helpful and reliable road maps. What bounty!

• INTRODUCTION: World World Vast World of the Brazilian Short Story PART I Tropical Belle Epoque (1880s-1921) ASSIS, JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE (1839-1908): Wedding Song The Siamese Academies The Fortune Teller Life The Nurse The Secret Heart A Woman's Arms Dona Paula Father versus Mother Wallow, Swine! VERISSIMO, JOSE (1857-1916): Going after Rubber Returning from Rubber Gathering MELLO, EMILIA MONCORVA BANDEIRA DE: (PSEUD. CARMEN DOLORES) (1852-1910): Aunt Zeze's Tears BARRETO, PAULO (PSEUD. JOAO DO RIO) (1881-1921): The Baby in Rose Tarlatan An Episode in a Hotel LIMA BARRETO, AFFONSO H. DE (1881-1922): The Man Who Knew Javanes LOBATO, MONTEIRO (1882-1948): The Funnyman Who Repented PART II Modernisn (1922-1945) ANDRADE, MARIO DE (1893-1945): It Can Hurt Plenty The Christmas Turkey MACHADO, ANIBAL (1895-1964): The Death of the Standard-Bearer The First Corpse MACHAD0, ANTONIA DE ALCANTARA (1901-1935): The Beauty Contest Gaetaninho ALPHONSUS, JOAO (1901-1935): Sardanapalo ACCIOLY, BRENO (1922-1966): Joao Urso RAMOS, GRACILIANO (1892-1953): The Thief Whale AMADO, JORGE (1912-2000): How Porciuncula the Mulatto Got the Corpse off His Back QUIEROZ, RACHEL DE (1910-2003): Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge REBELO, MARQUES (1907-1973): Down Our Street Verissimo, Erico (1905-1975): Fandango The Guerilla The House of the Melancholy Angel PART III Modernism at Mid-Century LISPECTOR, CLARICE (1920-1977): The Buffalo The Chicken The Smallest Woman in the World The Breaking of the Bread The Fifth Story Miss Algrave The Body Plaza Maua Beauty and the Beast, or The Wound Too Great GUIMARAES ROSA, JOAO (1908-1967): The Girl From Beyond Much Ado Soroco, His Mother, His Daughter The Third Bank of the River Treetops Those Lopes The Jaguar LINS, OSMAN (1924-1978): Baroque Tale or Tripartite Unity Easter Sunday TREVISAN, DALTON (B. 1925): The Corpse in the Parlor The Vampire of Curitiba GOMES, PAULO EMILIO SALLES (1916-1977): Her Times Two ANDRADE, CARLOS DRUMMOND DE (1902-1987): Miguel's Theft PART IV Contemporary Visions (after 1980) PINON, NELIDA (B. 1936): Big-Bellied Cow Brief Flower TELLES, LYGIA FAGUNDES (B. 1923): Just a Saxaphone RUBIAO, MURILO (1916-1981): Zacarias, the Pyrotechnist VEIGA, J.J (1915-1999): The Misplaced Machine SCLIAR, MOACYR (B. 1937): The Cow The Last Poor Man DOURADO, AUTRAN (B. 1926): Bald Island Lessa, Origenes (1903-1986): Marta: A Souvenir of New York FONSECA, RUBEM (B. 1925): Large Intestine CONY, CARLOS HEITOR (B. 1926): Order of the Day RAWET, SAMUEL (1929-1984): The Prophet HILST, HILDA (1930-2004): Agda GIUDICE, VICTOR (1934-1997): The File Cabinet STEEN, EDLA VAN (B. 1936): Caril head Lina heart ABREU, CAIO FERNANDO (1948-1996): Dragons... HATOUM, MILTON (B. 1952): The Truth Is a Seven-Headed Animal SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX

K. David Jackson is Professor of Portuguese at Yale University.

Lionel Trilling once wrote that literature makes us aware of 'the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.' Jackson has gathered between these covers Brazilian masters of subversion from Machado de Assis in the 19th Century to our contemporaries such as Lygia Fagundes Telles, Nelida Pinon and Moacyr Scliar. The translations are impeccable and Jackson's introductions are helpful and reliable road maps. What bounty!

• INTRODUCTION: World World Vast World of the Brazilian Short Story PART I Tropical Belle Epoque (1880s-1921) ASSIS, JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE (1839-1908): Wedding Song The Siamese Academies The Fortune Teller Life The Nurse The Secret Heart A Woman's Arms Dona Paula Father versus Mother Wallow, Swine! VERISSIMO, JOSE (1857-1916): Going after Rubber Returning from Rubber Gathering MELLO, EMILIA MONCORVA BANDEIRA DE: (PSEUD. CARMEN DOLORES) (1852-1910): Aunt Zeze's Tears BARRETO, PAULO (PSEUD. JOAO DO RIO) (1881-1921): The Baby in Rose Tarlatan An Episode in a Hotel LIMA BARRETO, AFFONSO H. DE (1881-1922): The Man Who Knew Javanes LOBATO, MONTEIRO (1882-1948): The Funnyman Who Repented PART II Modernisn (1922-1945) ANDRADE, MARIO DE (1893-1945): It Can Hurt Plenty The Christmas Turkey MACHADO, ANIBAL (1895-1964): The Death of the Standard-Bearer The First Corpse MACHAD0, ANTONIA DE ALCANTARA (1901-1935): The Beauty Contest Gaetaninho ALPHONSUS, JOAO (1901-1935): Sardanapalo ACCIOLY, BRENO (1922-1966): Joao Urso RAMOS, GRACILIANO (1892-1953): The Thief Whale AMADO, JORGE (1912-2000): How Porciuncula the Mulatto Got the Corpse off His Back QUIEROZ, RACHEL DE (1910-2003): Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge REBELO, MARQUES (1907-1973): Down Our Street Verissimo, Erico (1905-1975): Fandango The Guerilla The House of the Melancholy Angel PART III Modernism at Mid-Century LISPECTOR, CLARICE (1920-1977): The Buffalo The Chicken The Smallest Woman in the World The Breaking of the Bread The Fifth Story Miss Algrave The Body Plaza Maua Beauty and the Beast, or The Wound Too Great GUIMARAES ROSA, JOAO (1908-1967): The Girl From Beyond Much Ado Soroco, His Mother, His Daughter The Third Bank of the River Treetops Those Lopes The Jaguar LINS, OSMAN (1924-1978): Baroque Tale or Tripartite Unity Easter Sunday TREVISAN, DALTON (B. 1925): The Corpse in the Parlor The Vampire of Curitiba GOMES, PAULO EMILIO SALLES (1916-1977): Her Times Two ANDRADE, CARLOS DRUMMOND DE (1902-1987): Miguel's Theft PART IV Contemporary Visions (after 1980) PINON, NELIDA (B. 1936): Big-Bellied Cow Brief Flower TELLES, LYGIA FAGUNDES (B. 1923): Just a Saxaphone RUBIAO, MURILO (1916-1981): Zacarias, the Pyrotechnist VEIGA, J.J (1915-1999): The Misplaced Machine SCLIAR, MOACYR (B. 1937): The Cow The Last Poor Man DOURADO, AUTRAN (B. 1926): Bald Island Lessa, Origenes (1903-1986): Marta: A Souvenir of New York FONSECA, RUBEM (B. 1925): Large Intestine CONY, CARLOS HEITOR (B. 1926): Order of the Day RAWET, SAMUEL (1929-1984): The Prophet HILST, HILDA (1930-2004): Agda GIUDICE, VICTOR (1934-1997): The File Cabinet STEEN, EDLA VAN (B. 1936): Caril head Lina heart ABREU, CAIO FERNANDO (1948-1996): Dragons... HATOUM, MILTON (B. 1952): The Truth Is a Seven-Headed Animal SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX

K. David Jackson is Professor of Portuguese at Yale University.

Lionel Trilling once wrote that literature makes us aware of 'the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.' Jackson has gathered between these covers Brazilian masters of subversion from Machado de Assis in the 19th Century to our contemporaries such as Lygia Fagundes Telles, Nelida Pinon and Moacyr Scliar. The translations are impeccable and Jackson's introductions are helpful and reliable road maps. What bounty!

• INTRODUCTION: World World Vast World of the Brazilian Short Story PART I Tropical Belle Epoque (1880s-1921) ASSIS, JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE (1839-1908): Wedding Song The Siamese Academies The Fortune Teller Life The Nurse The Secret Heart A Woman's Arms Dona Paula Father versus Mother Wallow, Swine! VERISSIMO, JOSE (1857-1916): Going after Rubber Returning from Rubber Gathering MELLO, EMILIA MONCORVA BANDEIRA DE: (PSEUD. CARMEN DOLORES) (1852-1910): Aunt Zeze's Tears BARRETO, PAULO (PSEUD. JOAO DO RIO) (1881-1921): The Baby in Rose Tarlatan An Episode in a Hotel LIMA BARRETO, AFFONSO H. DE (1881-1922): The Man Who Knew Javanes LOBATO, MONTEIRO (1882-1948): The Funnyman Who Repented PART II Modernisn (1922-1945) ANDRADE, MARIO DE (1893-1945): It Can Hurt Plenty The Christmas Turkey MACHADO, ANIBAL (1895-1964): The Death of the Standard-Bearer The First Corpse MACHAD0, ANTONIA DE ALCANTARA (1901-1935): The Beauty Contest Gaetaninho ALPHONSUS, JOAO (1901-1935): Sardanapalo ACCIOLY, BRENO (1922-1966): Joao Urso RAMOS, GRACILIANO (1892-1953): The Thief Whale AMADO, JORGE (1912-2000): How Porciuncula the Mulatto Got the Corpse off His Back QUIEROZ, RACHEL DE (1910-2003): Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge REBELO, MARQUES (1907-1973): Down Our Street Verissimo, Erico (1905-1975): Fandango The Guerilla The House of the Melancholy Angel PART III Modernism at Mid-Century LISPECTOR, CLARICE (1920-1977): The Buffalo The Chicken The Smallest Woman in the World The Breaking of the Bread The Fifth Story Miss Algrave The Body Plaza Maua Beauty and the Beast, or The Wound Too Great GUIMARAES ROSA, JOAO (1908-1967): The Girl From Beyond Much Ado Soroco, His Mother, His Daughter The Third Bank of the River Treetops Those Lopes The Jaguar LINS, OSMAN (1924-1978): Baroque Tale or Tripartite Unity Easter Sunday TREVISAN, DALTON (B. 1925): The Corpse in the Parlor The Vampire of Curitiba GOMES, PAULO EMILIO SALLES (1916-1977): Her Times Two ANDRADE, CARLOS DRUMMOND DE (1902-1987): Miguel's Theft PART IV Contemporary Visions (after 1980) PINON, NELIDA (B. 1936): Big-Bellied Cow Brief Flower TELLES, LYGIA FAGUNDES (B. 1923): Just a Saxaphone RUBIAO, MURILO (1916-1981): Zacarias, the Pyrotechnist VEIGA, J.J (1915-1999): The Misplaced Machine SCLIAR, MOACYR (B. 1937): The Cow The Last Poor Man DOURADO, AUTRAN (B. 1926): Bald Island Lessa, Origenes (1903-1986): Marta: A Souvenir of New York FONSECA, RUBEM (B. 1925): Large Intestine CONY, CARLOS HEITOR (B. 1926): Order of the Day RAWET, SAMUEL (1929-1984): The Prophet HILST, HILDA (1930-2004): Agda GIUDICE, VICTOR (1934-1997): The File Cabinet STEEN, EDLA VAN (B. 1936): Caril head Lina heart ABREU, CAIO FERNANDO (1948-1996): Dragons... HATOUM, MILTON (B. 1952): The Truth Is a Seven-Headed Animal SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX