Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stavans, Ilan

Titel

WRESTLING WITH MACHADO

Ist Teil von

• The Yale review, 2018-07, Vol.106 (3), p.81-89

Ort / Verlag

New Haven: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As part of the ongoing cycles of discovery targeting English-language readers, The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson and published by Liveright, has recently landed in bookstores. Near a thousand pages, it is a mighty tome that includes a total of seven volumes of tales, all chosen by Machado himself. Mostly what interests Machado is sound, especially the inflections of the Portuguese language. Reading him in the original is hypnotizing, not in terms of content but because of the musicality, the rhythmic movement of sentences. Indeed, one has the sense that language, more than the nation that produces it, matters.