{"id":241,"date":"2008-04-14T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2008\/04\/14\/machado-de-assis-reading-the-brazilian-master-then-and-now\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:00:59","slug":"machado-de-assis-reading-the-brazilian-master-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/machado-de-assis-reading-the-brazilian-master-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Machado de Assis: Reading the Brazilian Master, Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curated by Ana Catarina Teixeira and Patricia Figueroa in collaboration with Prof. Nelson Vieira
\nApril 15 – June 5, 2008
\nJohn Hay Library
\n20 Prospect Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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\nSponsored by the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies.
\nTo both Brazilian and international critics, Machado de Assis is a name that stands alone in 19th century Latin American fiction. Born on the 21st of June 1839 in Rio de Janeiro to a father of African ancestry and a Portuguese mother, Machado de Assis, as an autodidact, rose above humble beginnings and a meager education to achieve the highest status of his country’s literary establishment.
\nDuring his prolific career, Machado explored nearly every genre–poetry, theater, journalism, literary criticism, and translation–but it was as a novelist and a short story writer that Machado forged a narrative voice that would forever impact the literary topography of his nation. At a time when European models dominated, Machado rejected pure imitation and explored new ways to represent Brazilian society.
\nIn 1908, at the age of 69, Machado de Assis died in his native city, leaving behind a legacy of short stories and novels, which mordantly criticized Brazil’s insensitive upper middle class and elites with the use of subtle irony and well-crafted ambiguity.
\nThe masterful manner in which Machado created his memorable characters not only allows his readers, then and now, to better comprehend the realities of Brazilian society, but above all, the complexities of the human condition. This unprecedented contribution not only placed Brazilian literature on the literary map, but also paved the way for the “new novel” in 20th century Portuguese and Spanish America.
\nThis year, Brown Univertsity Library joins the literary community to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Machado’s death with a display of early criticism of Machado’s works, donated by Professor William Leonard Grossman. The materials selected highlight not only the vast array of responses by his contemporaries, but also reveal insights into the timeless and universal nature of his prose in an attempt to help the audience gain a glimpse of Machado, the man and the writer, as a source of inspiration for an exponentially growing corpus of literary criticism.
\nThe Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies is proud to co-sponsor this exhibit on Machado de Assis since his writing is an integral part of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.
\nImage source: cover from “Machado de Assis” by Augusto Corr\u00eaa Pinto. Rio de Janeiro: Irm\u00e3os Pongetti, 1958. John Hay Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curated by Ana Catarina Teixeira and Patricia Figueroa in collaboration with Prof. Nelson Vieira April 15 – June 5, 2008 John Hay Library 20 Prospect Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Sponsored by the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies. To both Brazilian and international critics, Machado de Assis … Machado de Assis: Reading the Brazilian Master, Then and Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}