Helena (Portuguese Edition)

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Overview

Helena é o terceiro livro de Machado de Assis, publicado em 1876. Escrito em um formato de folhetim, narra as desventuras de Helena, herdeira de um uma grande fortuna deixada por Conselheiro Vale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781541057456
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/09/2016
Edition description:	Portuguese-language Edition
Pages:	204
Sales rank:	906,372
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)
Language:	Portuguese

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

"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