Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Machado was a notable Brazilian novelist, poet and short story writer who is widely regarded as a classic master of Brazilian and world literature, Machado wrote nine novels, eight short-story collections, four volumes of poetry, 13 plays, and numerous critical essays. Harold Bloom said that Machado is "a kind of miracle, another demonstration of the autonomy of literary genius in regard to time and place, politics and religion".


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