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29%OFFMachado de Assis - The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil - 9781603848534 - V9781603848534
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The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

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Description for The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Hardback. Accompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-known short stories bring nineteenth-century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
Accompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-known short stories bring nineteenth-century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers.

Product Details

Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
151
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
280g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781603848534
SKU
V9781603848534
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About Machado de Assis
John?Charles Chasteen is Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews for The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil
This beautifully translated selection of stories is a wonderful introduction to Brazils
and Latin Americas
greatest writer. Chasteen has done us all a great service by providing this wonderful volume to introduce and entice readers into the wonders of Brazilian culture .
Marshall C Eakin, Vanderbilt University Chasteens free translations convey the spirit of...
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This beautifully translated selection of stories is a wonderful introduction to Brazils
and Latin Americas
greatest writer. Chasteen has done us all a great service by providing this wonderful volume to introduce and entice readers into the wonders of Brazilian culture .
Marshall C Eakin, Vanderbilt University Chasteens free translations convey the spirit of Machados stories; they feel like what Machado might have written in todays English. Chasteens translation of The Alienist is exceptionally good: I have never enjoyed the story as much in Portuguese as in Chasteens version, which captures the narrative shifts and reversals with great timing .
Dain Borges, University of Chicago Chasteen has translated and edited seven short stories and one novella published during the period 1881-1906 by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil's most renowned writer and social satirist of the nineteenth century. [The] introduction. . . provides a useful, though relatively broad, snapshot of the century and historical era in which Machado de Assis lived and wrote. The brief preface to each story. . . demonstrates an interest on the part of Machado de Assis in showing everyday life, popular culture, women, male power and pretensions, and the politics of the elite. . . . Intended as an accessible and affordable introduction to Brazilian literature or as an accompaniment to a course on Latin American or Brazilian history. Recommended for classroom use and for those with an interest in world literature.
Colonial Latin American Historical Review ,

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