num_pages: 960
description: A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.A progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer. This majestic translation combines all his short-story collections appearing in his lifetime and reintroduces de Assis as a literary giant who must be integrated into the world literary canon.
language: English
title: The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
publisher: Liveright