Helena

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Overview

"Helena" é um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, um dos mais importantes escritores brasileiros do século XIX. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1876, o livro faz parte da fase romântica do autor e aborda temas como amor, moralidade, família e as complexas relações sociais do Brasil imperial. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) é amplamente considerado um dos maiores nomes da literatura brasileira. "Helena" é um dos seus primeiros romances, refletindo as características do romantismo, mas já mostrando indícios do realismo que marcaria suas obras posteriores. A história é dividida em 22 capítulos, narrados em terceira pessoa, com uma linguagem elegante e detalhada.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786554700108
Publisher:	Itatiaia
Publication date:	03/10/2024
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.05(h) x 0.31(d)
Language:	Portuguese

Editorial Reviews

"Wonderfully appealing, rich in characterization and spiced with wit. It has all the passion of a romantic melodrama without any of the effusive sentimentality that usually comes with the turf." -- Newsweek

David Lehman

"A public placing of 'Helena' is significant. Not just because it almost completes the projects of translating all the Brazillian master's novels, but also because the book is excellent in its own way and deseves to be appreciated by a broader audience." -- Hispania 68

Paul B. Dixon

"In Rio de Janero in 1879, a writer named Machado de Assis...managed to give voice to a sensability so distinctive and unmitigated that the work still can't be filed under any heading other than his own name....(His) novel called 'Helena'...was among his most popular - a tightly crafted, calmly lurid tale of illegitimate birth, pruient near-incest, doomed lovers and romantic death...Machado is a modernist because his sensability required a new way of looking at things, and every expression of it bares the stamp of his personality; he remains unique among modernist because that personality contravenes both soleminity in general, and self-importance in particular." -- Village Voice Literary Supplement

Tom Carson