Machado de Assis

Acclaimed as &quote;the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America&quote; by Susan Sontag, as well as &quote;another Kafka&quote; by Allen Ginsberg, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro. Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, &quote;the accomplished duo&quote; (The Wall Street Journal) behind the &quote;landmark...heroically translated&quote; volume (The New Yorker) of The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis (ISBN 978 0 87140 496 1), include twenty-six chronologically ordered stories, Machado de Assis affirms Machado's status as a literary giant who must finally be fully integrated into the world literary canon.