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Machado de Assis

Also known as Joachim María Machado de Assis

Brazilian writer

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Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a Brazilian writer, linguist, poet, and journalist. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and held Brazilian citizenship. His literary career spanned the Romanticism and literary realism movements. He wrote in Portuguese and French, and his political ideology was conservatism.

Notable works include *O alienista*, *Dom Casmurro*, and *The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas*. Other listed works are *Memorial de Aires*, *A mão e la luva*, *Mulheres de Machado*, and *A festa da caridade*. His writing was influenced by Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian of Samosata, and Laurence Sterne.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 21 June 1839
Died: 29 September 1908
Works: 415

Top works

A Causa Secreta
Memorial de Aires
A mão e la luva
Mulheres de Machado
Dom Casmurro

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Film & TV

Writing · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. In 1897, he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was multilingual,…

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Brazil
Active from: 1915
Active to: 1956

Discogs

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 603
Total plays: 10,435

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,401x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,174x
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,954x
Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,284x

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Quotes

“Entendia que há larga ponderação de males e bens, e que a arte de viver consiste em tirar o maior bem do maior mal.”
“A vida...é uma enorme loteria; os prêmios são poucos, os malogrados inúmeros, e com os suspiros de uma geração é que se amassam as esperanças de outra. Isto é a vida.”
“A melhor definição do amor não vale um beijo de moça namorada.”
“Creio até que o coração dela ensinou-me alguma coisa, embora noviço, ou por isso mesmo. Nesta matéria desaprende-se com o uso e o ignorante é que é douto.”
“O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.”
“A imaginação foi a companheira de toda a minha existência, viva, rápida, inquieta, alguma vez tímida e amiga de empacar, as mais delas capaz de engolir campanhas e campanhas, correndo.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Works in European collections

32 objects attributed to Machado de Assis, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

[Recibo a Stephani Marie Vienne L., representante do editor B. L. Garnier assinado por Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis pelo pago da 3ª edição de "Memórias póstumas" de Brás Cubas e a 2ª edição de "Quincas Borba"]

4 contos. Ponta seca e agua-forte de Poty

American

Iaiá Garcia

[Contrato celebrado entre Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis e o editor B.L. Garnier para a 1ª edição da obra "Helena do Vale "]

Histórias sem data

A mao e a luva

[Letter to Visconde de Rio Branco dated September 30, 1876]

O alienista

Contos fluminenses

Critica

Crisálidas

[Os arlequins]

Esau and Jacó

Chrisalidas : poesias

Memorial de Aires

[Aprovação de Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis como diretor do Conservatório Dramático Brasileiro para a representação da obra "A caixa do marido e a charuteira da mulher"]

Papéis avulsos

Relíquias de casa velha

Contos fluminenses

[O Christo, em que el alma penetrou teu nome...]

Dom Casmurro

[Uma flor? - uma lágrima]

[Ao proscribed Ch. Ribeyrollez]

Casa velha

Pareceres

Quincas Borba

Falenas

American

Untitled

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Encyclopedic overview

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ( Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu d͡ʒ(i) aˈsis]), sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. In 1897, he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was multilingual, having taught himself French, English, German and Greek later in life.

Born in Morro do Livramento [pt], Rio de Janeiro, from a poor family, Machado was the grandson of freed slaves in a country where slavery would not be fully abolished until 49 years later. He barely studied in public schools and never attended university. With only his own intellect and autodidactism to rely on, he struggled to rise socially. To do so, he took several public positions, passing through the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade and Public Works, and achieving early fame in newspapers where he first published his poetry and chronicles.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Machado de Assis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.