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Machado de Assis : a literary life / K. David Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, [Connecticut] ; London, [England] : Yale University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (355 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780300180824
  • 9780300182644 (e-book)
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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