Wry modernist of Brazil's past

From: Americas | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Taylor, David A | Copyright information

Often considered the father of his country's literature, Machado de Assis created humorous and dark works of implicit social criticism, free of the conventions of his nineteenth-century Rio

Last year the Brazilian film Memorias Fuo directed by Andre Klotzel, collected honors at fila festi"Is everywhere from Berlin to Kerala, in southwestern India. This faithful incarnation of the 1881 novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Asi showed how lively his work remains nearly;.n a century after hi...

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