Machado de Assis - life and work

When he published, in 1981, VIDA E OBRA DE MACHADO DE ASSIS, R. Magalhães Júnior gave a new direction to studies surrounding the life and work of this extraordinary Brazilian writer. He revealed new aspects, destroying the image of a cold and distant man, disconnected from the country's reality and uninterested in its social and political problems. Revised and expanded, the work now takes on a new look for the celebrations of the one hundred years since Machado's death. And it continues as the most important biography of the Witcher of Cosme Velho. The book contains everything you need to know who Machado de Assis was, what he wrote, what his city (Rio de Janeiro) and his time were like, his friends, the most important characters, what he read, what he liked , family, love. It also studies the developments