Pushkin Collection: The Looking-Glass

Essential Stories

Pushkin Collection: The Looking-Glass
Machado de Assis, Daniel Hahn
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Paperback
h165 x 120mm - 240pg
27 Oct 2022 UK
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9781782278078
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Machado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever lived. What seem at first to be stately social satires reveal unanticipated depths through hints of darkness and winking surrealism. This new selection of his finest work, translated by the prize-winning Daniel Hahn, showcases the many facets of his mercurial genius. A brilliant scientist opens the first asylum in his home town, only to start finding signs of insanity all around him. A young lieutenant basks in praise of his new position, but in solitude feels his identity fray into nothing. The reading of a much-loved, respected elder statesman' s journals reveals hidden thoughts of merciless cruelty.

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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is widely regarded as among the greatest Brazilian writers of all time. He was born to a poor family in Rio de Janeiro and, with little formal education, took work as a typographer' s apprentice and began to write and publish at age 15. Machado went on to a successful career as a writer of romantic novels and government bureaucrat. In the late 1870s he suffered a severe bout of illness, after which he wrote the ironic, complex masterpieces for which he is now famous, including The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781782278078
Published: 27 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 165mm
Width: 120mm
Pages: 240

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