Joaquín María Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is a singular case in literature: from a humble family, grandson of slaves, mulatto, epileptic and stutterer. This did not prevent him from becoming the greatest Brazilian author of the nineteenth century, nor from founding and presiding over the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Author of remarkable, joyful and eccentric books such as the "Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas", "Quincas Borba", "Don Casmurro" or "Esau and Jacob", he was also a short story writer of the level of Maupassant and Chekhov, his contemporaries. "Resurrection" (1878) is his first novel, until now unpublished in Spanish. It narrates the life of Dr. Felix, proud, womanizing, narcissistic, whose obsession with jealous and testing Livia, his lover, seems to be the only engine of his existence. For the Mexican writer Eduardo Langagne, author of this translation, "the plot of Resurrection would provide enough material for any contemporary film. In his essence, Machado de Assis captured the drama surrounding love relationships, their doubts and suspicions, and the catastrophe to which the inability to put individual pride before the tranquility of the loved one leads."