Machado De Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels

Machado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazil's rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Caldwell's critical and biographical study explores Machado's purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908. She traces the ideas and recurrent themes, and identifies his affinities with other authors.

In tracing Machado's experimentation with narrative techniques, Caldwell reveals the increasingly subtle use he made of point ...