"Better than Borges" -- Machado de Assis : Life and ethos -- Translation, poetry, and drama : The quest for greatness -- Criticism and Crônica : The quest for greatness continues -- Short stories : The dialectical other -- Novels : Lights! Camera! Digression! -- The world keeps changing to remain the same -- The Machado alphabet -- Coda : Machado's legacy -- Appendix 1. Machado de Assis in English -- Appendix 2. On Machado de Assis in English (ten books and a bonus)
Summary
A lively and accessible introduction to Machado de Assis and his work
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
MARIO HIGA is Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College