Loading ...A Chapter of Hats and Other Stories by Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, who died 100 years ago this month, is Brazil’s most famous writer. He has been less successful outside Brazil, possibly because his dry, laconic style does not chime with our perception of Latin American fiction.
Machado de Assis’s style is more closely related to that of Saki or Sterne than the magical realists of recent times. His humour is dark, verging on bleak. His acuity is second to none.
Review: A Chapter of Hats and Other Stories by Machado de Assis – Telegraph.
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