{"id":58516,"date":"2019-07-16T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58516"},"modified":"2019-07-16T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:32:08","slug":"machado-de-assis-26-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58516","title":{"rendered":"Machado de Assis: 26 Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machado de Assis: 26 Stories<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton<\/a>
\nJuly 2019
\n320 pages
\n5.5 x 8.3 in
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-63149-598-4<\/p>\n

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis<\/strong><\/a> (1839-1908)<\/p>\n

Translated by: Robin Patterson<\/strong> and Margaret Jull Costa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreword by: Michael Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

This \u201cwatershed collection\u201d (Wall Street Journal<\/em>) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado\u2019s finest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Widely acclaimed as \u201cthe greatest writer ever produced in Latin America<\/a>\u201d (Susan Sontag<\/a>), as well as \u201canother Kafka<\/a>\u201d (Allen Ginsberg<\/a>), Machado de Assis (1839\u20131908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-si\u00e8cle<\/a> Rio de Janeiro<\/a>\u2014a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus<\/a>, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, \u201cthe accomplished duo\u201d (Wall Street Journal<\/em>) behind the \u201clandmark . . . heroically translated\u201d volume (The New Yorker<\/em>) of the Collected Stories of Machado de Assis<\/em><\/a>, include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories from the seven story collections published during Machado\u2019s life\u2014featuring all-time favorites such as the celebrated novella<\/a> \u201cThe Alienist\u201d; the tragicomic \u201cparable of bureaucracy, madness, and power\u201d (Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>), \u201cMidnight Mass\u201d; \u201cThe Cane\u201d; and \u201cFather Against Mother.\u201d Ultimately, Machado de Assis: 26 Stories<\/em> affirms Machado\u2019s status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This \u201cwatershed collection\u201d (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado\u2019s finest stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,83,21,8],"tags":[3781,8304,30020,12432,6727,30019,757],"class_list":["post-58516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-joaquim-maria-machado-de-assis","tag-machado-de-assis","tag-margaret-jull-costa","tag-michael-wood","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-robin-patterson","tag-w-w-norton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516","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=58516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58519,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516\/revisions\/58519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}