Jackson, K. David <br/><br/>
Machado de Assis :  a literary life / 
K. David Jackson. 
 - New Haven :  Yale University Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations. 
 - Major figures in Spanish and Latin American literature and the arts .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The literary world of Machado de Assis --  The wizard of Cosme Velho --  The formative period --  Novels of the 1870s --  The literary modernism of Machado de Assis --  Reading Machado de Assis. Machado's pendulum --  Breaking the frame: the rhetoric of substitution --  Machado's world library --  Time's invisible fabric: telling what cannot be said, saying what cannot be told --  Three exemplary modes. Theater and opera: Machado's operatic theater of the world --  Delirium, hallucination, and dream: flying through time on a delirious trapeze --  Humanitas and satire: Machado's mad philosopher --  The actor-authors --  Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo --  Bento Santiago's grand dissimulation --  The love-death theme of Counselor Ayres --  Conclusion. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300182644 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Machado de Assis, 1839-1908 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Machado de Assis.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ9697  / .M334 2015