The literary world of Machado de Assis
The wizard of Cosme Velho
The formative period
Novels of the 1870s
The literary modernism of Machado de Assis
Reading Machado de Assis. Machado's pendulum
Breaking the frame: the rhetoric of substitution
Machado's world library
Time's invisible fabric: telling what cannot be said, saying what cannot be told
Three exemplary modes. Theater and opera: Machado's operatic theater of the world
Delirium, hallucination, and dream: flying through time on a delirious trapeze
Humanitas and satire: Machado's mad philosopher
The actor-authors
Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo
Bento Santiago's grand dissimulation
The love-death theme of Counselor Ayres
Conclusion.
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Machado de Assis : a literary life by K. David Jackson. ISBN 9780300180824. Published by Yale University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
