The devil's church and other stories
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (, 1839-1908)
The devil's church and other stories / Machado de Assis / trans. Jack Schmitt, Lorie Ishimatsu - Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press , c1977. - xiii, 152 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Texas Pan American series
The Bonzo's secret.--Those cousins from Sapucaia.--Alexandrian tale.--The Devil's Church.--A strange thing.--Final chapter.--A second life.--Dona Paula.--The diplomat.--The companion.--Evolution.--Adam and Eve.--Eternal!--A celebrity.--Mariana.--A canary's ideas.--Pylades and Orestes.--Funeral march.--Wallow, swine!
Machado de Assis's achievement in both novels and poetry make him Brazil's paradigm of a writer. His novels are characterized "by a psychological insight as well as a broad view of social conditions in Brazil and the world. The seriousness of the realistic view is highlighted with ironic humor." Beginning as a romantic, Assis developed a style that embraced realism, naturalism, and symbolism.
0-292-77535-0
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (, 1839-1908)
Brazil----Fiction
LAS FIC MAC
The devil's church and other stories / Machado de Assis / trans. Jack Schmitt, Lorie Ishimatsu - Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press , c1977. - xiii, 152 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Texas Pan American series
The Bonzo's secret.--Those cousins from Sapucaia.--Alexandrian tale.--The Devil's Church.--A strange thing.--Final chapter.--A second life.--Dona Paula.--The diplomat.--The companion.--Evolution.--Adam and Eve.--Eternal!--A celebrity.--Mariana.--A canary's ideas.--Pylades and Orestes.--Funeral march.--Wallow, swine!
Machado de Assis's achievement in both novels and poetry make him Brazil's paradigm of a writer. His novels are characterized "by a psychological insight as well as a broad view of social conditions in Brazil and the world. The seriousness of the realistic view is highlighted with ironic humor." Beginning as a romantic, Assis developed a style that embraced realism, naturalism, and symbolism.
0-292-77535-0
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (, 1839-1908)
Brazil----Fiction
LAS FIC MAC
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