Machado de Assis
1839 – 1908 · Brazil · Literature
Wrote a novel narrated by a dead man in 1881; Brazil's greatest writer.
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Who shaped Machado de Assis, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Miguel de Cervantes
1547 – 1616 · Literature
The unreliable, digressive narrator descends from Don Quixote.
Passed the work to1
- Clarice Lispector
1920 – 1977 · Literature
Brazilian interiority and ironic narration reach Lispector through Machado.
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