Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) by Earl E. Fitz - 2019

Bucknell University Press, 2019. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The final six novels of Brazilian writer Machado de Assis (1839-1908)-his great or mature period-stem from a single but powerfully unifying theoretical stalk, contends Fitz: his exploration of the nature of language and its unique relationship to human reality, narrative art, and mimesis. Although Machado is a philosophical and politically aware writer, Fitz approaches him here as only a fiction writer, an artist who imitates human reality by means of language, albeit one who is keenly aware of doing so. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. (2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)