Playing with Realism.(in literature)(Critical Essay)

The New Leader | November 1, 2000| | Copyright

"THE MAIN DEFECT of this book is you, reader," declares the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by the prodigious 19th-century Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Were his works making their initial appearance today, Machado might well be meat and drink for postmodern theorists. The most self-conscious of writers, he addresses us with genial insolence, or with avuncular wisdom, or in the complicit tones of a confiding crony. He is the first to acknowledge that his characters are pure artifice, chess pieces--though sharply drawn and located on the social ...

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