Machado-De-Assis
This brilliant novel is not only out to subvert narrative expectations, but to undercut the act of reading itself.
Read Moreby Bill Marx “If Borges is the writer who made Garcia Marquez possible,” observed Salman Rushdie, “then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado de Assis is the writer who made Borges possible.” Rushdie’s piggybacked history of the hemisphere’s premier intellectual ironists is correct but, at least until the last decade or so, Machado…
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