Machado de Assis
1) Helena
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Helena y Estacio son hermanastros y sienten gran ternura el uno por el otro. Con el pasar del tiempo, ese sentimiento vago de la infancia se transforma en amor.Estacio está prometido con Eugenia, la hija del médico de la familia. A Helena la corteja Mendoza, un amigo recién vuelto de un viaje por Europa.El conflicto, apenas esbozado, avanza y se despliega en una zona donde el contraste entre lo legítimo y lo ilegítimo se borra. En esa zona,
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"A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas. The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsburg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated...
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Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839-1908)--the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves--was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963 and still lacks proper...