Jackson, K. David <br/><br/>
Machado de Assis :  a literary life / 
K. David Jackson. 
 - New Haven, [Connecticut] ;  London, [England] :  Yale University Press,  2015. 
 - 1 online resource (355 p.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 -- Bras Cubas, Basso Buffo -- Bento Santiago's grand dissimulation -- The love-death theme of Counselor Ayres -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300180824 9780300182644 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Machado de Assis, 1839-1908 --Criticism and interpretation.