Machado De Assis

Praise for The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A glittering masterwork and an unmitigated joy to read . . . It is wholly original and unlike anything other than the many books that came after it and seem to have knowingly or not borrowed from it. . . . This tran ...

Dave Eggers

A writer a hundred years ahead of his time . . . If Borges is the writer who made García Márquez possible, then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado de Assis is the writer who made Borges possible

Salman Rushdie

One of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery

Susan Sontag

A glittering masterwork and an unmitigated joy to read . . . It is wholly original and unlike anything other than the many books that came after it and seem to have knowingly or not borrowed from it. . . . This tran ...

Dave Eggers

A writer a hundred years ahead of his time . . . If Borges is the writer who made García Márquez possible, then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado de Assis is the writer who made Borges possible

Salman Rushdie

One of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery

Susan Sontag

A glittering masterwork and an unmitigated joy to read . . . It is wholly original and unlike anything other than the many books that came after it and seem to have knowingly or not borrowed from it. . . . This tran ...

Dave Eggers

A writer a hundred years ahead of his time . . . If Borges is the writer who made García Márquez possible, then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado de Assis is the writer who made Borges possible

Salman Rushdie

One of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery

Susan Sontag