Este valioso documento brilla por la refinada literatura de que está dotado y permite internarse en la intimidad de la compleja personalidad de Machado de Assis y gozar con su estilo, su maestría y la...

Los cuentos de esta antología sorprenden por diversas razones: unos por su final inesperado; otros por las reflexiones del narrador en torno al oficio de escribir; otros por la fantasía que despliegan;...

Obra singular en el marco de la literatura brasileña, por un lado rompe con las fórmulas del Romanticismo y, por otro, anticipando recursos del Modernismo y descubrimientos del psicoanálisis, es extremadamente...

Entre los textos aquí reunidos destaca El alienista; en él se nos relata la vuelta a su ciudad natal del doctor Simón Bocamarte, quien en su afán por estudiar la locura construye su propio manicomio,...

Aunque raras veces Machado de Assis centró su atención de manera directa en personajes esclavizados, ese es un tema presente en toda su narrativa. Los cuentos incluidos en esta antología -publicados originalmente...

A classified ad is offering a large reward for the return of a lost greyhound. Mendonça, a single young doctor who has found the dog, makes his way to a house on Rua de Mata-cavalos, where the reward...

Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for...

Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg, a single Swede of thirty-nine, wedded to science alone, suddenly finds himself roped into giving botany lessons to a neighbor's lovely young niece.Translated from Portuguese...

Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School...

"'Now, you've played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn't écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let's play a game.' Xavier started laughing."So...

In "Trio in A Minor," Machado's classic tale of a love triangle in Brazilian high society, the intrigue plays out to the tune of the old sonata of the absolute.Genre: short storyLength: 2,900 wordsTranslated...

"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. And...

When Luís Negreiros returns home from the office one evening, he finds a fine watch and chain on a table in his bedroom. The watch isn't his and can't be his young and beautiful wife Clarinha's, either....

The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis.Length: 4,000 words.Date of English translation:...

The aging clerk Coimbra no longer believes in much. Not even his long-standing faith in the lottery--"I'm no longer of the age to hope," he admits--is entirely steadfast. He resolves, then, to buy one...

Inácio Ramos is a cellist. His young wife, daughter of a poor shopkeeper, does not understand his art. She is drawn instead to popular music and those who play it, above all to a mediocre law student...

In Montevideo, on shore leave, a naval officer comes across a burning dressmaker's shop. Ever the chivalrous gentleman, he ignores the flames and the smoke and rushes up the stairs to the burning workshop.Translated...

"At forty, he was disabused of his ambitions, but his temper remained the same, and, his conjugal vocation notwithstanding, he still couldn't find a bride. More than one would have would have accepted...

"People recall an abyss with pleasure; it is impossible to recall a bore without dread. Sooner the Tarpeian Rock than an author of ill repute."Genre: short storyLength: 1,500 wordsTranslated from Portuguese...

"Our disagreement has a natural explanation. I am a single girl, full of complications, dreams, ambitions, and poetry; you are already a woman of the house, a calm and happy wife, soon to be a mother;...

Failed composer Maestro Romão, ill, is seeking desperately to complete a piece of music he had abandoned in 1779, shortly after his marriage. In this brief and moving tale by the Brazilian master Machado...

Máximo, an impoverished young poet and student, inherits a fortune on the unexpected death of his godfather. His own fortunes, however, are not greatly improved.Genre: short storyLength: 5,400 wordsTranslated...

"And over the years, in other loves, more real and longer lasting, he never experienced a feeling like that of that Sunday on Rua da Lapa, when he was fifteen years old."Fifteen-year-old Inácio has been...

"I felt an acute pain in the top part of my skull; a foreign object went in to the inside of my brain. I know nothing else. I think I fainted. When I came to, the laboratory was empty. Father and daughter...

It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor...

Martinha, in her forties, finds herself alone. She has only the old aunt she lives with. One day, going through the mementos of her youth, she comes across a dried flower and reminisces about the circumstances...

Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was the finest storyteller of nineteenth-century Latin America. "Midnight Mass and Other Stories" offers a selection of Machado's tales, from the oft-translated...

Obra-prima do realismo, este romance singular de Machado de Assis narra a história de um homem consumido pelo ciúme e pela desconfiança. Fixação e notas de Manoel M. Santiago-AlmeidaIntrodução de Amândio...

Simon Bacamarte, aliéniste diplômé, s'installe dans une paisible bourgade brésilienne et, au nom de la science, fonde un asile d'aliénés. Il classe d'abord et enferme tous les lunatiques, mais son emprise...