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Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels (Bucknell Studies in ,Used
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This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literatures greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a new narrative, one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of language as a selfreferential semiotic system that Machado crafts his new narrative. Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside the LusoBrazilian ken. He is the epitome of the outsider or marginal, the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of eccentric. Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as in theory.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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