Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Knihy

Nejvýznamnější román brazilského spisovatele, zakladatele moderní latinskoamerické prózy. Brás Cubas, bezvýznamný človíček prostředních názorů a průměrných vášní, dostane po smrti jedinečnou příležitost –⁠ díky autorově fantazii nepropadne zmaru, ale literární tvorbě, v níž probírá svůj prošlý život. „Posmrtné paměti jsou patrně jednou z těch vzrušivě originálních, radikálně skeptických knih, které pokaždé zapůsobí na čtenáře dojmem soukromého objevu,“ říká o románu ve své předmluvě Susan Sontagová.

Román brazilského klasika o jinošství, studiích, lásce a manželství dvou přátel s obrazem společnosti brazilského císařství a republiky ve druhé polovině 19. století, vyprávěný s lehkým humorem, vyúsťuje v překvapující drama nevěry a žárlivosti.

This watershed collection (The Wall Street Journal) now appears in a selected paperback edition with twenty-six of Machado's finest stories.

First published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is acknowledged as the finest achievement of the great Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis, and among the most important novels ever written in the Portuguese language.

A vibrant new translation of Machado de Assis's classic novel about a young man flush with newfound wealth, who promptly gets swindled

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.

'If Borges is the writer who made Garcia Marquez possible then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado De Assis is the writer who made Borges possible' - Salman Rushdie

When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he leaves to his friend Rubiao the entirety of his wealth and property, with a single stipulation: Rubiao must take care of Quincas Borba's dog, who is also named Quincas Borba, and who may indeed have assumed the soul of the dead philosopher. Flush with his newfound wealth, Rubiao heads for Rio de Janeiro and plunges headlong into a world where fantasy and reality become increasingly difficult to keep separate. Brilliantly translated by Gregory Rabassa, Quincas Borba is a masterful satire not only on life in Imperial Brazil but the human condition itself.

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.