The last of four novels that preceded Machado de Assis's famous trilogy of realistic masterpieces, Iaia Garcia belongs to what critics have called the Brazilian author's "romantic" phase. But it is far more than that implies. Like his other early works, Iaia Garcia foreshadows the themes and characters of Assis's most masterful novels.
Iaia Garcia intertwines the lives of three characters in a subtly and wryly developing relationship. While the youthful Iaia is growing into womanhood, a tentative love affair occurs between the aristocratic Jorge and the prideful...
The last of four novels that preceded Machado de Assis's famous trilogy of realistic masterpieces, Iaia Garcia belongs to what critics have ...
The later novels of Machado de Assis -- notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob -- are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated. Here, in The Hand and the Glove (the Brazilian master's second novel), rendered in English for the first time by Albert I. Bagby, Jr., readers will find a younger, gentler Assis, writing a romantic comedy that is yet permeated with the lively wit characteristic of his later works.
The story is a simple one-of love lost and love found. Of love lost by Estevao, amiable but vacillating, who is bemused...
The later novels of Machado de Assis -- notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob -- are well known in this country, but the earlier n...
