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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908)

Machado de assis was born in rio de janeiro, The son of house painter and a portuguese woman. Machado received little formal education. He learned French from a neighboring baker. Machado worked as a printer’s apprentice ar the National Press, and later he was a salesman and a proofreader in a bookshop. During these years he started to write stories, poems, and novels. He began to gain fame as a poet in his mid-twenties, and by the late1860s he had become a successful Brazilian man of letters.
He is widely regarded as brazil’s greatest novelist. Machado wrote nine novels. Eight short-story collections, four Volumes of poetry, thirteen plays, and numerous critical essays. He ofren satirized middle-Class Values and behavior. Machado de Assis was an astute observer of the Human Mind and he reveaked its dark sides. He shared with many authors of his period a reformist concern, But his view was colored with irony and skepticism.
His most famous novel, Don Casmurro, is a marvelously Humorous, and sinister. Machado creates provoking, irresol vable doubts in the reader’s mind. It’s no wonder that he is considered brazil’s greatest novelist and capitu his most fascinating heroine, Like the Mona Lisa, Much lies hidden behind a superb portrait. If you’ ve never heard of Machado de Assis, do yourself a favor and seek hin out. He’s well worth the effort.

Machado de Assis, The Best Brazilian Novelist
A few facts about his Life
Sickly from Childhood, epileptic lived in fear that he would suffer an attack in Public.
Ugly and a stutterer, Machado was a simple man – shy, discreet ( Not given To Close relationships and manifestations of Emotions) Urbane, Cosmopolitan, And Cynical.

His philosophy of life. “ Avoid conflicts, which are often quite useless: be discreet, devote yourself To Cultivating your own garden, Leaving your neighbors Alone’’
Indifferent to social questions as Brazilian independence and the abolition