{"product_id":"machado-de-assis-26-stories-9781631495984","title":"Machado de Assis: 26 Stories","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 \u003cem\u003efin-de-siecle\u003c\/em\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\" (\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) behind the \"landmark . . . heroically translated\" volume (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e) of the \u003cem\u003eCollected Stories of Machado de Assis\u003c\/em\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\" (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e), \"Midnight Mass\"; \"The Cane\"; and \"Father Against Mother.\" Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eMachado de Assis: 26 Stories\u003c\/em\u003e affirms Machado's status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631495984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51616453787829,"sku":"9781631495984","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_034cea3b-f0de-4115-b2b2-80533a489ea6.jpg?v=1756189491","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/machado-de-assis-26-stories-9781631495984","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}