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Machado de Assis


Born
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
June 21, 1839

Died
September 29, 1908

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Romance, Poetry

Influences
Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Arthur Schopenhauer, Stendhal, Gusta ...more


Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature.
Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."

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Average rating: 4.16 · 153,550 ratings · 11,774 reviews · 1,256 distinct works • Similar authors
Memórias póstumas de Brás C...
4.26 avg rating — 41,733 ratings — published 1881 — 800 editions
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Dom Casmurro
4.33 avg rating — 41,026 ratings — published 1899 — 30 editions
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O Alienista
4.10 avg rating — 22,660 ratings — published 1881 — 229 editions
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Quincas Borba
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3.96 avg rating — 8,694 ratings — published 1892 — 40 editions
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Helena
3.83 avg rating — 4,160 ratings — published 1876 — 147 editions
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Esau and Jacob
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3.76 avg rating — 2,263 ratings — published 1904 — 67 editions
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A Mão e a Luva
3.77 avg rating — 2,053 ratings — published 1874 — 164 editions
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A Cartomante e Outros Contos
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4.11 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 1884 — 8 editions
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Memorial de Aires
3.81 avg rating — 1,330 ratings — published 1908 — 179 editions
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Papéis Avulsos
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4.16 avg rating — 982 ratings — published 1882 — 74 editions
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“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
― Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia
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“Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de réis”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
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June 2020 Old School Poll

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 180, 303 pages
 
  88 votes, 27.8%

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 1855, 1021 pages
 
  83 votes, 26.2%

 
  37 votes, 11.7%

The Warden by Anthony Trollope 1855, 336 pages
 
  36 votes, 11.4%

Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac 1846, 468 pages
 
  32 votes, 10.1%

 
  22 votes, 6.9%

 
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