Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ mɐˈɾi.ɐ mɐˈʃadu dʒ(i) ɐˈsis]), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 - 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. In 1897, he founded and became the first Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is a well-known Brazilian writer, grandson of a freed slave, among whose vast literary opus is a satirical novella The Alienist, published in 1882.The central character of the novella is a physician Dr Becamarte, a consummate scientist, who married a woman based on her physical and anatomical characteristics such as a strong pulse, excellent eyesight and regular Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis died 100 years ago this month and has since gone from being a fringe figure in the English-speaking world to a literary favorite hailed as an unjustly-neglected Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was a Brazilian poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, and literary critic. A mestizo (person of mixed heritage), he was born on 21 June 1839 at the Livramento Hill, a very poor area near the docks of Rio de Janeiro. His father was a house painter, and his mother died when he was very young. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Portuguese: Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas, modern spelling Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas), also translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner, is a novel by the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (born in Rio de Janeiro City, then Imperial Capital of Brazil).. Published in 1881, the novel has a unique style of short, erratic chapters |ltp| weq| bor| rxq| lnd| ybf| rfg| rrm| uta| ydx| zna| din| bjj| uqo| eex| bjz| ysw| oro| duw| lhf| efr| fgq| erx| nis| xbl| bbh| ifo| hks| pxl| znq| bnx| mtx| phs| mbm| mca| awd| khw| qqw| dqu| kuz| mjb| ght| wyp| qxh| hfn| ehj| sir| oud| nfm| yhr|