The Looking-Glass: Essential Stories by Machado De Assis
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Overview: Machado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever lived. What appear at first to be stately social satires reveal unanticipated depths through flashes of darkness and winking surrealism. This new selection of his finest work, translated by the prize-winning Daniel Hahn, showcases the many facets of his mercurial genius.
A brilliant scientist opens the first asylum in his home town, only to start finding signs of insanity all around him. A young lieutenant basks in praise, but in solitude feels his identity fray into nothing. The reading of a much-loved elder statesman’s journals reveals hidden thoughts of merciless cruelty.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
This beautiful new collection of fresh translations offers the perfect gathering of his most beloved stories:
- The Fortune-Teller
The Posthumous Portrait Gallery
The Loan
The Tale of the Cabriolet
The Stick
The Secret Cause
The Canon, or Metaphysics of Style
The Alienist
The Looking-Glass
Midnight Mass
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