{"product_id":"machado-de-assis","title":"Machado de Assis","description":"Widely acclaimed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), as well as “another Kafka” (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of \u003ci\u003efin-de-siecle\u003c\/i\u003e Rio de Janeiro—a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters. In this original paperback, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, “the accomplished duo” (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) behind the “landmark . . . heroically translated” volume (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories of Machado de Assis\u003c\/i\u003e, include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories from the seven story collections published during Machado’s life—featuring all-time favorites such as the celebrated novella “The Alienist”; the tragicomic “parable of bureaucracy, madness, and power” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), “Midnight Mass”; “The Cane”; and “Father Against Mother.” Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eMachado de Assis: 26 Stories\u003c\/i\u003e affirms Machado’s status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.","brand":"Michael Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42850282963005,"sku":"9781631495984","price":24.26,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781631495984_05ba0ac3-2323-445e-ab7d-c00496d84e64.jpg?v=1767071852","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/machado-de-assis","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}