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The Brazilian novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), although only recently "discovered" outside Brazil, ranks among major world authors of the 19th century. His works are notable for th...
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In the following essay, Decker discusses the themes, style, and technique in Machado's later stories from Histórias sem data to Várias Histórias.
The themes of Machado's s...
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In the following essay, Virgilio examines Machado's representation of true love in his stories, detecting even in his early "romantic" stories that true love is rarely genuine, an...
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In the following overview of The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories , Nist discusses themes and techniques used in the stories, and praises Machado's subtle and understated style of writing.
Joaqu...
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In the following essay, Schmitt and Ishimatsu examine Machado 's fiction as a kind of social and literary criticism, and also discuss the ways in which it approached literary modernism.
The mod...
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In the following essay, Nunes defends Machado against attacks that he was unsympathetic to blacks in Brazil based on his apparant reticence on the issue of slavery. The critic cites examples from Mach...
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In the following essay, Gledson discusses the parallels between the story "A Parasita Azul" and the plots of Machado's major novels. The critic argues that the story, when read as...
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Below, Fitz traces the development of Machado as a short story writer, commenting on each of his collections.
For all Machado's innovative skill and imagination as a novelist, many critics, inc...
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Critical Essay by Donald M. Decker
