Crónicas escogidas

Crónicas escogidas - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Sexto Piso
Publisher name: 
Sexto Piso
Year of publication: 
2008
Pages: 
224

The common, everyday and trivial is the raw material of this literary genre which, through the pen of Machado de Assis, considered by Harold Bloom as one of the geniuses of humanity, is presented simply as a perfect talk, of those that They do not bore and keep us laughing and reflecting, eager to keep listening. As a well-informed neighbor of daily life, Rio de Janeiro offers us a clear portrait of Brazil at the end of the 19th century, reflecting the marked tension between the old and the modern, between tradition and "progress."

The meditations of a donkey around the new electric trams that have come to displace it as a means of transportation, the story of a slave who refuses to accept his freedom because he does not know what that means, the well planned escape of the inmates of A mental hospital that finally prove not to be so crazy, a regulation for the use of the street...read more

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Book: Crónicas escogidas

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