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Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as "another Kafka." Philip Roth has said of him that "like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering." And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that "he's funny as hell."

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- Machado de Assis, --- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de, --- Assis, Machado de, --- De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado, --- De Assis, Machado, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquín María, --- Mashado de Assiz, Zhoakin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Semana

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Imitation in literature. --- Quotation --- Literary style --- Mimesis in literature --- Originality in literature --- Plagiarism --- Machado de Assis, --- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de, --- Assis, Machado de, --- De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado, --- De Assis, Machado, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquín María, --- Mashado de Assiz, Zhoakin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Semana

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This book brings forth new critical perspectives from some of the most notable scholars in Brazilian literature and history on one of the great writers and cultural minds of nineteenth-century Latin America. Machado de Assis’s innovative writing style and impactful works in literature, theater, and journalism, has left an indelible mark on the letters of Brazil, Latin America, and the world, influencing innumerable writers and cultural talents of his generation and those that followed including Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag, Woody Allen, and José Saramago. Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis elicits new critical perspectives on topics as diverse as national identity, slavery, modernity, politics, skepticism, genre, race, and gender. Through and examination of Machado de Assis’s life and work this volume provides an important glimpse not only into Brazil’s past, also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions.

Comparative literature. --- Machado de Assis, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de, --- Assis, Machado de, --- De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado, --- De Assis, Machado, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquín María, --- Mashado de Assiz, Zhoakin, --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Latin American Culture. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- History and criticism --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Semana

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"The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. Assis was Brazil's most experimental novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist politics, popularly known as "the poet of the slaves"; and da Cunha is known for the masterpiece Os Sertoes/Sertőes (The Backlands), a work of genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors Luis/Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention"-- "The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha--from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century"--

Brazilian literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Slavery --- Abolitionists --- Africans --- Blacks --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Alves, Castro, --- Machado de Assis, --- Cunha, Euclides da, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ethnology --- Social reformers --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Cunha, Euclydes da, --- Da Cunha, Euclides, --- Pimenta da Cunha, Euclides Rodrigues, --- Rodrigues Pimenta da Cunha, Euclides, --- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de, --- Assis, Machado de, --- De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado, --- De Assis, Machado, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquín María, --- Mashado de Assiz, Zhoakin, --- Alves, Antônio de Castro, --- Castro Alves, Antônio Frederico de, --- De Castro Alves, Antônio Frederico, --- Alves, Antônio Frederico de Castro, --- Castro Alves, Antônio de, --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people --- Semana --- Enslaved persons in literature

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This comparative study is the first to bring together three of the most important writers of the Luso-Hispanic 19th century: Machado de Assis (Brazil), Eça de Queirós (Portugal), and Leopoldo Alas (Spain). It offers new readings of their well-known masterpieces, while uncovering a novel literary and political significance of the interior space in realist fiction. his is the first full-length study to juxtapose three renowned writers of the less known but incredibly important Luso-Brazilian and Spanish literary traditions while at the same time dealing with a thematic concern

Latin American fiction --- Spanish literature --- Interior architecture in literature. --- Architecture and literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature --- Latin American literature --- History and criticism. --- Machado de Assis, --- Queirós, Eça de, --- Alas, Leopoldo, --- Clarín, --- Alas Clarín, Leopoldo, --- García de las Alas, Leopoldo, --- Alas y Ureña, Leopoldo, --- Ureña, Leopoldo Alas y, --- Alas, Leopoldo García de las, --- De las Alas, Leopoldo García, --- Las Alas, Leopoldo García de, --- García Alas y Ureña, Leopoldo, --- Alas Ureña, Leopoldo, --- Queiroz, Eça de, --- Queiroz, José Maria de Eça de, --- Eça de Queiroz, José Maria de, --- De Queirós, Eça, --- Eça de Queirós, --- Eça de Queirós, José Maria de, --- Queirós, José Maria Eça de, --- Eça de Queiroz, J. M. d' --- Queiroz, J. M. d'Eça de --- Kai-lo-ssu, Ai-sa Te, --- Gailuosi, Aisa De, --- Ai-sa Te Kai-lo-ssu, --- Aisa De Gailuosi, --- Mendes, Carlos Fradique --- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de, --- Assis, Machado de, --- De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado, --- De Assis, Machado, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquín María, --- Mashado de Assiz, Zhoakin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature and architecture --- Semana --- Queiros, Eca de,