[DOC] [TLE] BRAZILIAN LITERATURE: CONTEMPORARY URBAN FICTION ... [PAR] works of urban fiction must be of interest to any student of Latin American ... begin 
with an examination of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, the late ... Lispector, 
perhaps the most widely read contemporary Brazilian author in ... Bourgeois 
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), much admired by Susan ... Devil 
to Pay in the Backlands) is a work of Joycean inventiveness - and it .... His stories 
are set mostly in a nameless small inland city, much like his... [DOC] [TLE] Brazilian Literature: Contemporary Urban Fiction [PAR] Clarice Lispector, after Machado, the most translated author from Brazil (the .... 
was one of the first Brazilian authors to "write the city"; we will study his great 
masterpiece, ... gentility is also at issue in Dalton Trevisan's fiction, set in the 
reputed garden city of ... Machado de Assis, whose works date from the final 
decades of the... [DOC] [TLE] Feeding the City - University of Texas Press [PAR] From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 17801860 ... 
occupationthe food tradeand showing the connections between and among 
social categories. ... Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social 
component during the late ..... and Machado de Assis: Reflections on the 
Brazilian Master Writer . [DOC] [TLE] On the paths of a novelist in the 19th century: the Rio de Janeiro of ... [PAR] Keywords: Jos de Alencar; urban novels; Rio de Janeiro. ... the scenario of the 
plots and the city where the author lived for most of his life. ... that historical 
moment, that his work assisted the progress of Brazilian civilization. ..... Alencar 
and Machado de Assis took place on the sofas located at the front of Garnier 
Bookshop. [DOC] [TLE] machado de assis and brazilian literary independence - SciELO [PAR] Machado de Assis, as Brazil's most prominent writer of the nineteenth and early 
... for synthesis that placed his writings among the great universal masterpieces. 
... Alencar's attempts to compose a vast mural of Brazil, writing urban, Indianist, 
rural, and ... Through his work as a translator, one can detect a set of idiosyncratic
... [DOC] [TLE] Machado de Assis - Wikipedia [PAR] Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [wk mi. madu 
di sis]), ... Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary 
schools of the late ... Assis (Machado de Assis Prize), the most prestigious literary 
award in Brazil. ... He was invited by Bocaiva to work at his newspaper Dirio do 
Rio de... [DOC] [TLE] 3.0 out of 5 stars Good as an Introduction to Brazilian Writers By ... [PAR] This book was published in 2010 and contained 36 works by 32 authors. ... The 
oldest authors were Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), described ... 
the nation's best-known and most frequently translated 20th century author; Jos 
... Among stories set in the central west, one by Vilela depicted a boy's struggle to
... [DOC] [TLE] The Babel Guide to Brazilian Literature - Babel Guides: World ... [PAR] The PDF version of the Babel Guide to Literature Complete Set can be 
purchased ... Machado de Assis, Paolo Coelho and forty other Brazilian authors 
whose books ... It's a splendid, baroque epic of a work, as rich (and as dark) as 
the finest Parisian .... His characters are more recognisably

Question: The urbane Brazilian author Machado de Assis set most of his works among the wealthy of this city
Answer: Rio