Devil''s Church and Other Stories

Klappentext The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. Zusammenfassung The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Bonzo's secret.--Those cousins from Sapucaia.--Alexandrian tale.--The Devil's Church.--A strange thing.--Final chapter.--A second life.--Dona Paula.--The diplomat.--The companion.--Evolution.--Adam and Eve.--Eternal!-- celebrity.--Mariana.--A canary's ideas.--Pylades and Orestes.--Funeral march.--Wallow! swine!.

Product details

• Authors: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis
• Assisted by: Lorie Ishimatsu (Translation), Jack Schmitt (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1977
• EAN: 9780292715424
• ISBN: 978-0-292-71542-4
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American; Classicos/Clasicos; University of Texas Press; Classicos/Clasicos; Texas Pan American Series; Texas Pan American
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies