A Semana

by Machado de Assis, John Gledson (Introduction)

As crônicas, publicadas todos os domingos no talvez mais importante, popular e respeitado jornal do Rio de Janeiro no século XIX, a Gazeta de Notícias, trazem à tona a reação de Machado de Assis à cena política e social que o cercava. Supostamente leves e triviais, mais recreativas do que educativas, carregam toda a ironia do Autor num período muito turbulento, no início da República.

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

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. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime.
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."

Reviews

[Lucian · Rating 3 out of 5]

sometimes wildly amusing, sometimes too temporally distant from my reality to elicit any emotions. still, always nice to read machado's biting sarcasm.