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Machado de Assis

Author profile


born
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
June 21, 1839

died
September 29, 1908

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Romance, Poetry

influences
Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, William Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne, Jona...more


About this author

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime.
Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."


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Machado de Assis's Books

Average rating: 4.07 · 13,947 ratings · 471 reviews · 99 distinct works · Similar authors
Dom Casmurro
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 4,405 ratings — published 1900 — 85 editions
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Memórias Póstumas de Brás C...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 3,870 ratings — published 1880 — 76 editions
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O Alienista
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,730 ratings — published 1882 — 40 editions
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Quincas Borba
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 936 ratings — published 1891 — 8 editions
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Helena
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1876 — 15 editions
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A Cartomante e Outros Contos
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 1884 — 6 editions
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Contos Completos De Machado...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1963 — 9 editions
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Esau and Jacob
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1904 — 18 editions
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Memorial de Aires
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1908 — 18 editions
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Papéis Avulsos
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1882 — 12 editions
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Series by Machado de Assis

Memórias Póstumas de Brás C... Quincas Borba Dom Casmurro
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Quotes by Machado de Assis

“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
― Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia
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“Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de réis”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
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“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores”
― Machado de Assis, The Devil's Church and Other Stories
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