Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his wor

Few things endure like fear and fungus.In a city forever shrouded in darkness, Kalan braves the heights of the lichen covered buildings to scrub the invading fu

DIVA translation of Schwarz's study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908)./div

The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors w