{"id":39410,"date":"2015-12-22T04:13:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39410"},"modified":"2016-03-26T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T14:43:29","slug":"machado-de-assis-a-literary-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39410","title":{"rendered":"Machado de Assis: A Literary Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300180824\/machado-de-assis\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Machado de Assis: A Literary Life<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/yupbooks\" target=\"_blank\">Yale University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-26<br \/>\n360 pages<br \/>\n6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4<br \/>\n2 b\/w illus.<br \/>\nISBN: 9780300180824<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/span-port.yale.edu\/people\/kenneth-david-jackson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>K. David Jackson<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese<br \/>\n<em>Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300180824\/machado-de-assis\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book_jacket\/public\/imagecache\/external\/24d493406c41d678fcf6e7b01880d662.jpg?itok=YkXkKwdM\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machado_de_Assis\" target=\"_blank\">Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis<\/a> (1839\u20131908) is widely regarded as Brazil\u2019s greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Caldwell\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Caldwell\u2019s<\/a> seminal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=39414\" target=\"_blank\">1970 study<\/a>, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago\" target=\"_blank\">Jos\u00e9 Saramago<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlos_Fuentes\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Fuentes<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Barthelme\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Barthelme<\/a>. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_Sontag\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Sontag<\/a> called \u201cthe greatest writer ever produced in Latin America\u201d and whom <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allen_Ginsberg\" target=\"_blank\">Allen Ginsberg<\/a> hailed as \u201canother <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franz_Kafka\" target=\"_blank\">Kafka<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Roth\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Roth<\/a> has said of him that \u201clike <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Beckett\" target=\"_blank\">Beckett<\/a>, he is ironic about suffering.\u201d And <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harold_Bloom\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Bloom<\/a> has remarked of Machado that \u201che\u2019s funny as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machado de Assis: A Literary Life Yale University Press 2015-05-26 360 pages 6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 2 b\/w illus. ISBN: 9780300180824 K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Yale University Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839\u20131908) is widely regarded as Brazil\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,83,21,1196,8,17],"tags":[3781,12288,19043,8304,1424],"class_list":["post-39410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-joaquim-maria-machado-de-assis","tag-k-david-jackson","tag-kenneth-david-jackson","tag-machado-de-assis","tag-yale-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46247,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39410\/revisions\/46247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}