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Machado wrote nine novels and hundreds of stories, and there is a hard line running through the middle of the career: four competent romantic novels, then a break in 1881 after which he became one of the strangest and funniest writers of the nineteenth century. Start on the far side of that line with the two masterpieces, finish the late quintet, then take the stories.
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- How should I approach learning machado de assis?
- Machado wrote nine novels and hundreds of stories, and there is a hard line running through the middle of the career: four competent romantic novels, then a break in 1881 after which he became one of the strangest and funniest writers of the nineteenth century. Start on the far side of that line with the two masterpieces, finish the late quintet, then take the stories.
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- A strong starting point is Helena by Machado de Assis. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.
- What should I read after machado de assis?
- Once you have the fundamentals, explore closely related subjects like James Joyce, Samuel Beckett.