Stories
By: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Rhett McNeil
Contributors: McNeil, Rhett, editor, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781564788993
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878--1886, his most radically experimental period, this selection of short fiction by Brazil's greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac to philosophical to impishly ironic. Including Machado's classic essay on world literature -- also appearing in English for the first time -- and with pieces chosen from his vast body of work for their playfulness, pathos, and stylistic subversion, this collection is an ideal introduction to the work of one of the treasures of world literature.
Notes: Translated from the Portuguese.

Collected stories representing the period dating from 1878-1886.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The psychiatrist; title: The immortal; title: The dictionary; title: The academies of Siam; title: The priest, or The metaphysics of style; title: To live!; title: Ex cathedra; title: Voyage around myself; title: A lady; title: Trio in a minor; title: Wedding song; title: A visit from Alcibiades; title: On the ark: three (undiscovered) chapters from the Book of Genesis.