Quincas Borba.(Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Quincas Borba. By JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS. Trans. by Gregory Rabassa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998. 290 pp. 20.00 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 10.99 [pounds sterling]).

With Gregory Rabassa's elegant translation of Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis, the Library of Latin America of the Oxford University Press has completed publication of the successful rendering into English of the three masterpieces among the five novels of the author's 'mature' phase: that is, from 1879 until his death in 1908. The other two were Dom Casmurro (the translation of which, by John ...

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