The Devil's Church and Other Stories (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
166
Utgivningsdatum
1977-05-01
Förlag
University of Texas Press
Översättare
Jack Schmitt, Lorie Ishimatsu
Originalspråk
Portuguese
Medarbetare
Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria
Illustratör/Fotograf
illus
Illustrationer
illus.
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 10 mm
Vikt
254 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780292715424

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

av Joaquim Maria MacHado De Assis
Häftad,  Engelska, 1977-05-01
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The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style and world view, and this translation doubles the number of his stories previously available in English. The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. If he had continued to produce the moralistic love stories and parlor intrigues of his earlier fiction, Machado's legacy would have been an entertaining but inconsequent body of work. However, by 1880 he had begun a devastating satirical assault on society through his fiction. In spite of his ruthlessness, Machado does at times reveal an ironic sympathy for his characters. He is not indifferent to human conflict but uses humor and irony to stress the absurdity of these conflicts, acted out against the backdrop of an indifferent universe. Such a spectacle creates a sense of helplessness that can only inspire wistful amusement. In his technical mastery of the short story. Machado was decades ahead of his contemporaries and can still be considered more modern than most of the modernists themselves. That his stories elicit such strong and diverse reactions today is a tribute to their richness, complexity, and significance.
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Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable to Flaubert, to Hardy, or to James. * New York Times *

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Jack Schmitt is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at California State University, Long Beach. Lorie Ishimatsu is a graduate student and associate instructor in Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction The Bonzos Secret Those Cousins from Sapucaia Alexandrian Tale The Devils Church A Strange Thing Final Chapter A Second Life Dona Paula The Diplomat The Companion Evolution Adam and Eve Eternal! A Celebrity Mariana A Canarys Ideas Pylades and Orestes Funeral March Wallow, Swine! Translators Note

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