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This majestic translation combines all his short-story collections appearing in his lifetime and reintroduces de Assis as a literary giant who must be integrated into the world literary canon.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295489667445,"sku":"9780871404961","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780871404961_dd7acf89-0e5c-464c-a559-a4d745f4dae3.jpg?v=1786016042"},{"product_id":"9781324095149","title":"Dom Casmurro – A Novel","description":"Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson’s critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil’s most ground-breaking authors. Hailed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), Machado’s genius is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento Santiago, an engaging yet unreliable narrator, suspects his wife, Capitu, of having an affair with his closest friend. Withdrawn and obsessive, our antihero mines the origins of their love story: from childhood neighbours playing innocently in the backyard to his brief spell in a seminary to marriage and the birth of their child—whom, he fears, does not resemble him. A gripping domestic drama brimming with Machado’s signature humour, this is another stunningly modern tale from the progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685679014261,"sku":"9781324090700","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56297566929269,"sku":"9781324095149","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324090700.jpg?v=1792598823"},{"product_id":"9781324090502","title":"Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I passed away at two o’clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city.\" So begins \u003cem\u003ePosthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas\u003c\/em\u003e—at the end of the narrator’s life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis’ definitive work—a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding \"good riddance\" to the critic looking for a \"run-of-the-mill-novel\". Yet in this coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado’s career, as his flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Brás Cubas describes his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist fiction, Brás Cubas shines a direct light to \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297899884917,"sku":"9781324090502","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324090502_39a8381d-8721-4831-8e70-ae3cfba02005.jpg?v=1786034636"},{"product_id":"9781324096702","title":"Quincas Borba","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) has found a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1891, \u003ci\u003eQuincas Borba\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the death of its titular character, a mad philosopher. Borba leaves his fortune—including his dog, also named Quincas Borba—to Rubião, his loyal caretaker. Adrift in the big, bad world, it isn’t long before Rubião is targeted by sycophants, smelling his naïveté.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayfully told by an omniscient and possibly unreliable narrator, the novel is at once irreverent and ambitious, brimming with barbed wit and keen philosophical inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly translated by the duo credited with introducing a new generation of readers to Machado through their translations of \u003ci\u003eDom Casmurro, The Collected Stories and Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eQuincas Borba\u003c\/i\u003e is another strikingly modern tale from a blazing progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297918267765,"sku":"9781324096702","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324096702.jpg?v=1791212820"},{"product_id":"9781631495984","title":"Machado de Assis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” by Susan Sontag, as well as “another Kafka” by Allen Ginsberg, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, “the accomplished duo” (\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) behind the “landmark...heroically translated” volume (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e) of \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Stories of Machado de Assis\u003c\/em\u003e (ISBN 978 0 87140 496 1), include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories, Machado de Assis affirms Machado’s status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302071841141,"sku":"9781631495984","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781631495984_ef39de83-2342-4ed3-bd9c-10ffa0ffac44.jpg?v=1786034274"},{"product_id":"9781603848527","title":"The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-known short stories bring nineteenth-century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305092821365,"sku":"9781603848527","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781603848527_7cf93f87-4d37-486f-b494-0a97c73d60ae.jpg?v=1786023189"},{"product_id":"memorial-de-ayres","title":"Memorial de Ayres","description":"\u003cp\u003eReleased two months before his death in 1908, \u003cem\u003eMemorial de Ayres\u003c\/em\u003e was Machado de Assis’s final novel. Written in the form of a diary, it follows the day-to-day happenings of a retired diplomat, Counselor Ayres, during the waning years of the Brazilian empire. Ayres lives a simple life: the most eventful parts of his week are lunch with his sister or a visit to their family cemetery. But a new love interest pushes Ayres from the confines of his quiet routine and into the warm, welcoming home of the Aguiars, an older couple who never had children. The Aguiar household is a centre of merriment, a necessary outlet for the reclusive Ayres–and where Brazil’s well-to-do ponder the momentous changes afoot. Marked by Machado’s sly humour and psychological subtlety–and set in a singularly transformative moment in Brazil’s history–\u003cem\u003eMemorial de Ayres\u003c\/em\u003e is a quietly prescient tale of personal and national legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503785124213,"sku":"9781324096795","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781324096795.jpg?v=1791212821"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-joaquim-maria-machado-de-assis.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}