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Book Synopsis Crónicas miopes de la ciudad by : Miriam Mabel Martínez, Editorial Ink
Download or read book Crónicas miopes de la ciudad written by Miriam Mabel Martínez, Editorial Ink and published by Editorial Ink. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrañable mirada ésta de la gran ciudad de México, descrita con destreza y oficio por Miriam Mabel Martínez a quien ya no le sorprende la forma en la que este monstruo de concreto ha crecido, sino la cantidad y diversidad de ópticas bajo las que puede caminarse. Con el olfato periodístico de una mujer que lo mismo puede describirnos la calle en donde se filmó Pepe El Toro, que defender los argumentos de grandes pensadores franceses contemporáneos, Miriam nos recuerda que, para bien o para mal, existen mil y un formas de vivir y escribir sobre la ciudad y sus multifacéticos personajes.
Book Synopsis Las Crónicas Misteriosas by : Luis A. Rodríguez
Download or read book Las Crónicas Misteriosas written by Luis A. Rodríguez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mientras Dante caminaba en medio de aquellos pasillos rodeado de toda clase de libros; su mente se concentr tanto en esas incgnitas que realmente andaba buscando y que no lograba encontrar. Estaba tan concentrado que por un momento dej de sentir el lugar y sinti que su mente se alejaba de su cuerpo. Se encontr una vez ms en el mundo de los sueos; esos sueos que lo perseguan con ms frecuencia ltimamente. Sinti el aire clido y fuerte que le robaba su gorra y al querer cubrirse su cabeza con sus manos corpulentas su pelo se le incrustaba en ellas. Senta un olor que no descifraba y un ruido que le llegaba hasta la mdula de sus huesos. Era un ruido seco que lo torturaba. Perciba algo ms, algo que no haba sentido o visto antes. Algo que le pareca De pronto sinti un suave movimiento y una voz que haba odo antes. Era la voz de Maribella que lo estaba sacando de aquel sueo o trance. La copa se le haba cado y el contenido se haba desparramado sobre la delicada alfombra. Se sinti abochornado y dese desaparecer de inmediato; pero, la suave voz de Maribella lo tranquiliz. Lo tom de la mano y lo dirigi al sof ms prximo. Dante se dej conducir sin oponer resistencia. Todava parte de su mente deambulaba. Transcurri un buen tiempo para que se recuperara por completo. Cuando lo hizo se disculp por el dao que haba causado. Aunque Maribella le mencion que el dao era lo de menos, que lo ms importante era que se sintiera bien; Dante segua disculpndose. Para que no siguiera sintindose culpable, Maribella fue a la cocina y volvi con unos lquidos especiales para sacar manchas en alfombras. Dante se tom el tiempo de hacerlo y terminada la labor, pareci recuperar no slo su estado de nimo si no tambin su energa. Maribella observando tal cambio lo confront directamente y sin evasivas. Le pregunt que ella necesitaba saber exactamente que le haba pasado. Dante comprendiendo que si Maribella estaba de su parte no tena porque ocultarle lo que le haba pasado. Total, haba venido para eso. Poniendo cada detalle en su respectivo lugar, le explic que los sueos a que l se refera y lo que le acababa de suceder eran exactamente iguales. La nica diferencia, aclar, es que era la primera vez que le pasaba despierto. Le explic detalle por detalle de todo lo que se acordaba. Al final del relato le mencion que haba un evento que no se acordaba. Le prometi que tan pronto viniera a su mente lo escribira y se lo iba a comunicar. Maribella, despus de escuchar la narracin y haber estudiado detenidamente la lmina y ledo el pie de gravado, aquella narracin conectaba en cierto punto. Maribella le dijo, Dante vuelve a revisar ahora esta pgina detenidamente y extrae cualquier similaritud que tu mente registre. Dante hizo lo que Maribella le peda y despus de esforzar la mente hasta el lmite exclam, Maribella! Maribella! Hay algo en comn en esta pgina y mis sueos. Mira la posicin y color de las hojas, qu t observas en ellas? Cambiando de posicin y agarrando el libro, Maribella las observ detenidamente y despus de unos momentos le dijo, lo nico que puedo observar es, que da la impresin, que el pintor de esta lmina pint las hojas en una forma que representaran que un violento viento las estaba moviendo. A lo que se refiere al color se dira que es otoo o estn pasando por un tiempo de sequa. Efectivamente, le contest Dante hace unos momentos en mi sueo, si se le puede llamar as, sent un viento fuerte. Tan fuerte que me quit la gorra de mi cabeza. Adems, sent que ese viento estaba acompaado de un calor sofocante. Pareca que estaba en un lugar en el que no haba llovido por mucho tiempo; o quizs, me atrevera a decir, cerca de un lugar desrtico. Haba algo extra, algo que por primera vez se me presentaba en mis sueos. Estaba a punto de visualizar lo que era cuando cuando volv en s. Dante no quera que Maribella se sintiera mal. En verdad, l le agradec
Book Synopsis Crónicas de América Latina by : Miguel Á. Novella
Download or read book Crónicas de América Latina written by Miguel Á. Novella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crónicas de América Latina: narrativa de no-ficción es la primera edición de una novedosa antología de crónicas diseñada para la enseñanza de español avanzado. Los textos, fascinantes y accesibles, permiten que los estudiantes se adentren en la compleja realidad contemporánea, tanto política como social y cultural, de América Latina, mientras refuerzan la lectura, la redacción y la conversación. Los ejercicios, todos ellos diseñados a partir de los propios textos, pretenden repasar problemas gramaticales y léxicos tradicionales, con especial énfasis en aquellos que atañen a las variedades dialectales del español americano: por ejemplo, el uso del pronombre ‘vos’. Este libro es un excelente material de lectura que puede usarse en clases de español como segunda lengua o en clases de español para hablantes de herencia, tanto en clases de lengua (gramática o conversación) como de contenido (cultura). Dividido en nueve capítulos, el material abarca temas cruciales tales como política, identidad, raza, género, inmigración, violencia, exilio, medio ambiente, gastronomía, fútbol y música. Cada texto puede leerse de forma independiente, lo que permite que los profesores seleccionen las lecturas según las particularidades de cada curso. Pensado en un principio para estudiantes de español, esta antología es sobre todo una lectura indispensable para cualquier persona interesada en la zona que concentra el mayor número de hispanohablantes en el mundo.
Book Synopsis Crónicas De Un Caníbal by : Armando Fernández-Vargas
Download or read book Crónicas De Un Caníbal written by Armando Fernández-Vargas and published by Bubok. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CRÓNICA DE UN CANIBALSinópsisCrónica de un Caníbal es una historia de amor, de dolor y de perseverancia. Es la historia de Sebastián Mogollón, un muchacho pobre que se enamora de Beatriz una muchacha rica de ciudad Panamá. El inicio de la novela tiene lugar en ciudad Panamá, a finales de la década del los ochenta, durante el gobierno de Manuel Antonio Noriega. Luego los personajes emigran a la ciudad de Nueva york, y la novela se desarrolla en las zonas marginadas de Brooklyn y el bajo Manhattan. Es diciembre del 1989, y además de todas las barreras sociales que se interponen en los planes de Sebastián para conquistar al amor de su vida, parece que el destino conspira también contra él. Sebastián, desesperado por ganarse el cariño de Beatriz, recuerda un embrujo de amor que le había enseñado un amigo. Se ilusiona pensando que sin dudas Beatriz se rendiría ante ese sortilegio. Para su sorpresa, ella se escapa con otro de sus pretendientes a los Estados Unidos. Sebastián cae en una depresión tal, que sólo desea morirse o dormir toda una vida; no se suicida porque le falta la energía suficiente para levantarse de la cama y matarse. Rehúsa escuchar los consejos de sus padres y su hermana, y solo encuentra algún alivio a su desventura tocando la guitarra y escuchando canciones de boleros. Cuando pensaba que dentro de él no quedaba más espacio para más sufrimiento, su familia perece durante la invasión de Estados Unidos a Panamá de 1989. Sin Beatriz, y sin su familia, Sebastián pierde aun más la falta de interés por la vida. Su amigo César Ramirez le recuerda que siempre hay razón para seguir viviendo, que solo se ha perdido una batalla, pero no la guerra, y lo convence para que emigre a Los Estados Unidos. Los dos atraviesan la frontera Méjico-Estados Unidos y llegan a Williamsburg, New York, un sector plagado drogas, prostitución y violencia. Sebastián había escuchado sobre los pesares que sufren los emigrantes en Nueva York, pero nunca pensó vivirlos en carne propia. Aprender un nuevo idioma, adaptarse a nueva cultura, sobrevivir al peligro de las calles del Williamsburg, y a los inviernos de Nueva York, sin embargo no lo desanimaron a seguir buscando el tesoro que escondía los muros de esa gran ciudad. Con la paciencia de quien busca una aguja en un pajar y está dispuesto a remover cada hoja de heno hasta encontrarla, o como el cazador furtivo que en medio del bosque arma una trampa y se sienta a esperar, así Sebastián espera que el efecto de ese embrujo de amor haga su efecto en Beatriz. El tema de la novela tiene cierta similitud con El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera de Gabriel García Márquez. Es la historia del músico pobre que se enamora de la muchacha rica. Sebastián Mogollón, al igual que Florentino Ariza, en El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera, se enferma gravemente de amor y ambos se refugian en la música para consolarse. La perseverancia, y un amor que prevalece a través de los años es el tema principal de ambas novelas. Pero a diferencia de Florentino Ariza, Sebastián no pretende hacerse rico y famoso para poder conquistar a Beatriz. Él se conforma con mucho menos: le es suficiente con ser un mesero de un restauran, y ver a través del cristal a la gente pasar, y soñar con algún día ver a Beatriz pasar frente a él.
Book Synopsis Crónicas Heridas Abiertas - Memorias De Un Apropiador by : Daniel A. Klaver
Download or read book Crónicas Heridas Abiertas - Memorias De Un Apropiador written by Daniel A. Klaver and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La trama ocurre en 1996, y sus orígenes nos llevan por las décadas del 60' al 90'; En este texto se deja traslucir la diversidad de la represión, desde dos protagonistas. -Un militar aparentemente normal, que acepta apropiarse de un bebe durante la dictadura. Un apropiador mundano, corrupto y ambiguo, enmarañado por su formación, se apoya en una filosofía desquiciante, basando su proceder en la caricatura del bueno que salva al niño del infierno rojo. -Un niño nacido en cautiverio que reconstruye sus raíces uruguayas, relacionadas a quien fue miembro de los "Tupamaros", y entre los años 1962 a 1964 del EGP (Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo), primer grupo armado que opero en la Argentina. La historia se alimenta con hechos sociales y políticos ocurridos en Uruguay, Argentina y un pantallazo por Suecia y Nicaragua, como un reflejo de lo acontecido en el mundo entre esas décadas, donde aparecen distintos actores de la política argentina desde el 1970 al 1996.
Book Synopsis The Age of Youth in Argentina by : Valeria Manzano
Download or read book The Age of Youth in Argentina written by Valeria Manzano and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social and cultural history of Argentina's "long sixties" argues that the nation's younger generation was at the epicenter of a public struggle over democracy, authoritarianism, and revolution from the mid-twentieth century through the ruthless military dictatorship that seized power in 1976. Valeria Manzano demonstrates how, during this period, large numbers of youths built on their history of earlier activism and pushed forward closely linked agendas of sociocultural modernization and political radicalization. Focusing also on the views of adults who assessed, and sometimes profited from, youth culture, Manzano analyzes countercultural formations--including rock music, sexuality, student life, and communal living experiences--and situates them in an international context. She details how, while Argentines of all ages yearned for newness and change, it was young people who championed the transformation of deep-seated traditions of social, cultural, and political life. The significance of youth was not lost on the leaders of the rising junta: people aged sixteen to thirty accounted for 70 percent of the estimated 20,000 Argentines who were "disappeared" during the regime.
Book Synopsis Crónicas Desde El País Vecino by : Luis Arturo Ramos
Download or read book Crónicas Desde El País Vecino written by Luis Arturo Ramos and published by Stockcero, Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cronicas desde el Pais vecino" (Chronicles from the country next door) is a collection of short chronicles published in Mexican newspapers in the late 1990s by Luis Arturo Ramos to illustrate everyday life in the United States as seen by a Mexican citizen. Written in the 1990s they deal explicitly with frontier issues.In these nine brief texts Ramos discusses many subjects and comments upon different places and events. The "boundary" quality of these pieces is evident as numerous trips along the frontier are described, and in the choice of the chronicle as genre. "Cronicas desde el Pais vecino" provides an outstanding entry point for further investigation, deepening perspectives and provoking discussion about several socio-political aspects of the border zone. At the same time the reader will enjoy the author's subtlety and wit. This sharply perceptive humor and the format it is given, due to its linguistic dexterity, allows the reader to visualize scenes from daily life, as well as the architecture and geomorphology of the American Southwest.This edition by Prof. Maria Elvira Villamil includes analysis of the texts as well as information about the author and his writings within a socio-political context. The introduction analyzes various perspectives on the chronicle as literary genre, and its relationship to other literature. Topics relevant to the text are discussed, as is its regional historical framework both as seen by Luis Arturo Ramos and by scholars in other disciplines.
Book Synopsis Crónicas americanas by : Judith Bettelheim
Download or read book Crónicas americanas written by Judith Bettelheim and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bilingual catalog of 1997 exhibition of José Bedía at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, the first exhibit at the museum dedicated to a Cuban artist (who worked in Mexico before moving to the US). Handsomely illustrated in b/w and color, complemented with texts by Judith Bettelheim, Orlando Hernández, and Charles Merewether, each focusing on a different aspect of Bedía's work"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Book Synopsis Aconteceu no Brasil - Crônicas de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano no Brasil II by : Mark J. Curran
Download or read book Aconteceu no Brasil - Crônicas de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano no Brasil II written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aconteceu no Brasil - Crônicas de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano no Brasil II" é a continuação de um livro editado uns anos atrás: "Peripécias de um Pesquisador 'Gringo' no Brasil no Anos 1960". Continua o namoro e a odisseia do autor no Brasil de 1969 a 1985 (um terceiro volume trará tudo ao presente, isso daqui a uns anos). O volume presente tratará varias estadas no Brasil, o autor já "Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese" na Arizona State University. Os temas serão a pesquisa da literatura de cordel, congressos e momentos importantes com autores brasileiros, esforços para publicar obras no Brasil, viagens a partes novas do país e belos momentos de turismo com a esposa Keah. Entre os momentos acadêmicos altos serão 1973 e o Primeiro Congresso de Filologia Portuguesa no Rio quando o autor é apresentado ao mundo acadêmico Luso-Brasileiro e especialmente em 1981 quando faz parte da "Comemoração de 50 Anos de Literatura de Jorge Amado" em Salvador da Bahia. Entre outros momentos de pesquisa através os anos o momento mais memorável e feliz foi em 1985 quando o autor e sua esposa Keah foram ao Brasil. A ocasião foi um prêmio para o autor combinado com uma bela viagem turística a partes diversas do pais. No espírito e estilo de "crônicas breves" o livro não deixará de comentar o cenário político, econômico e social do país através os anos notando muitas mudanças vistas pelo autor.
Book Synopsis Guaman Poma Y Su Cronica Ilustrada Del Peru Colonial by : Rolena Adorno
Download or read book Guaman Poma Y Su Cronica Ilustrada Del Peru Colonial written by Rolena Adorno and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the opening of the full digital edition of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) on the website of the Royal Libary, Copenhagen, this new book by one of the world's most prominent Guaman Poma-scholars contains a survey (in English and in Spanish) of recent research. Guaman Poma dedicated his Chronicle to Philip III, King of Spain, but it has been preserved since the 18th century in the Royal Library, Copenhagen. 'Rediscovered' by modern scholarship in 1908, it was included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' list in 1999. Written and illustrated by a Christianised native Andean of Southern Peru, several decades after the Spanish conquest, the Nueva corónica is a complex and unique mixture of historiography and utopianism. On one hand, it contains an entirely original framework for Andean historical self-understanding, as an alternative to the colonial viewpoint. On the other hand, based upon vivid written and graphic descriptions of Andean daily life and sufferings under colonial rule, Guaman Poma formulates far-reaching proposals for reform aimed at turning the chaotic viceroyalty into a dynamic self-governed kingdom within the Spanish empire. Guaman Poma envisioned this new order as Christian, but organised in accordance with Andean economic, social, and cultural tradition.
Book Synopsis The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture by : Andrew Reynolds
Download or read book The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture written by Andrew Reynolds and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén Darío, Reynolds argues that extra-textual elements – such as temporality, the material formats of the newspaper and book, and editorial influence – animate the modernista movement’s literary ambitions and aesthetic ideology. Thus, instead of being stripped of an esteemed place in the literary sphere due to participation in the market-based newspaper industry, journalism actually brought modernismo closer to the writers’ desired artistic autonomy. Reynolds uncovers an original philosophical and sociological dimension of the literary forms that govern modernista studies, situating literary journalism of the movement within historical, economic and temporal contexts. Furthermore, he demonstrates that journalism of the movement was eventually consecrated in book form, revealing modernista intentionality for their mass-produced, seemingly utilitarian journalistic articles. The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality, and Material Culture thereby enables a better understanding of how the material textuality of the crónica impacts its interpretation and readership.
Book Synopsis Cohesion and Dissolution by : Ingo Rohrer
Download or read book Cohesion and Dissolution written by Ingo Rohrer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apocryphal story of punk and hardcore is narrated as a history of young rebels united by shared interests, values and a sense of equality. Through the example of the scene of Buenos Aires, Ingo Rohrer demonstrates that this unity is fragile and requires different practices of maintenance to ensure the cohesive continuity of the community. Friendship is the focus of these efforts, but at the same time it is also a point of vulnerability where the group’s dissolution and disappointment about the scene germinates. Ingo Rohrer examines how a local scene’s quest for cohesion is concurrent with tensions and contradictions. Beyond the attention put on the friendship in the local scene, the author asks what role friendships play in the local life world of neighborhoods and in the globalized punk and hardcore scene. Based on rich empirical data, the author suggests new perspectives on group processes and local/transnational relations with relevance far beyond the realm of these vibrant music scenes.
Book Synopsis The Journal of Intercultural Studies by :
Download or read book The Journal of Intercultural Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism by : John S. Bak
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism written by John S. Bak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalism’s global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented with and perfected the narrative journalistic form/genre over time. The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism demonstrates the genre’s rich genealogy and global impact through a comprehensive study of its many traditions, including the crónica, the ocherk, reportage, the New Journalism, the New New Journalism, Jornalismo literário, periodismo narrativo, bao gao wen xue, creative nonfiction, Literarischer Journalismus, As-SaHafa al Adabiyya, and literary nonfiction. Contributions from a diverse range of established and emerging scholars explore key issues such as the current role of literary journalism in countries radically affected by the print media crisis and the potential future of literary journalism, both as a centerpiece to print media writ large and as an academic discipline universally recognized around the world. The book also discusses literary journalism's responses to war, immigration, and censorship; its many female and Indigenous authors; and its digital footprints on the internet. This extensive and authoritative collection is a vital resource for academics and researchers in literary journalism studies, as well as in journalism studies and literature in general. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Download or read book Viajes y crónicas written by Rubén Darío and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” by : M. Elizabeth Boone
Download or read book The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” written by M. Elizabeth Boone and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” delves beneath the traditional “English-only” narrative of U.S. history, using Spain’s participation in a series of international exhibitions to illuminate more fully the close and contested relationship between these two countries. Written histories invariably record the Spanish financing of Columbus’s historic voyage of 1492, but few consider Spain’s continuing influence on the development of U.S. national identity. In this book, M. Elizabeth Boone investigates the reasons for this problematic memory gap by chronicling a series of Spanish displays at international fairs. Studying the exhibition of paintings, the construction of ephemeral architectural space, and other manifestations of visual culture, Boone examines how Spain sought to position itself as a contributor to U.S. national identity, and how the United States—in comparison to other nations in North and South America—subverted and ignored Spain’s messages, making it possible to marginalize and ultimately obscure Spain’s relevance to the history of the United States. Bringing attention to the rich and understudied history of Spanish artistic production in the United States, “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” recovers the “Spanishness” of U.S. national identity and explores the means by which Americans from Santiago to San Diego used exhibitions of Spanish art and history to mold their own modern self-image.
Book Synopsis Machado de Assis by : Richard Graham
Download or read book Machado de Assis written by Richard Graham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) never left Brazil and rarely traveled outside his native city of Rio de Janeiro, yet he is widely acknowledged by those who have read him as one of the major authors of the nineteenth century. His works are full of subtle irony, relentless psychological insights, and brilliant literary innovations. Yet, because he wrote in Portuguese, a language outside the mainstream of Western culture, those with access to his writings are relatively few. This book is designed not only to call new attention to this master but also to raise questions about the nature of literature itself and current alternative views on how it can be approached. Four essays address the question of Machado's "realism" in the five masterpiece novels of his maturity, especially Dom Casmurro. The noted contributors include John Gledson (University of Liverpool), João Adolfo Hansen (Universidade de São Paulo), Sidney Chalhoub (Universidade de Campinas), and Daphne Patai (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). Dain Borges of the University of California at San Diego says, "[This is the] only collection explicitly debating the question that polarizes contemporary Brazilian criticism of Machado de Assis: was he a sophisticated late realist, or was he a pioneering anti-realist, even a postmodernist? The [essayists] marshal their evidence and argument with virtuosity and arrive at sharply opposing conclusions."
