Strangely fascinating. I am no expert in literature and only started reading "serious" fiction works a couple of years back in my quest to read all those works included in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Dr. Boxall.Therefore, at first, I did not know how to react to this kind of litera...
Machado very much like Pessoa is succinct at surfacing underpinning motives flourished by societies moors and contradictions. My favourite stories were The Psychiatrist, Education of a Stuffed Shirt and The Looking Glass. One of my favourite passages from the book ..."Sleep, real sleep was anothe...
Publicados pelo autor em 1896, os 16 contos desta coletânea representam o apogeu da narrativa curta em Machado de Assis, destaque para 'A Cartomante', 'Um Homem Célebre' e 'O Enfermeiro'.
Machado published two excellent stories in which women are central characters. “Capítulo dos chapeus,” which takes its title from a play by Moliere, is told as a mock epic: “Sing, Muse!” Rather than epic heroism, however, the story involves a domestic spat. Though he often wrote for women, Machad...
I’m not going to delay it any more. I’m going down immediately. I’m going down even if some circumspect reader holds me back to ask if the last chapter is only a disagreeable incident or whether I’d been made a fool of… Alas, I didn’t count on Dona Eusébia. I was all ready when she came into the ...