Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 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 ...

The radical intellectuals of nineteenth-century Latin America, heirs of the independence movement that began in 1811, set themselves the task of exposing the corruptions of empire in their pamphlets ...

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If I write another novel I shall call it “The Interruption” in honor of Machado de Assis in short numbered chapters each with a title like “God Knows What He’s Doing.” I shall write it with the ...