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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One The Literary World of Machado de Assis
One The Wizard of Cosme Velho
Two The Formative Period
Three Novels of the 1870s
Four The Literary Modernism of Machado de Assis
Part Two Reading Machado de Assis
Five Machado’s Pendulum
Six Breaking the Frame: The Rhetoric of Substitution
Seven Machado’s World Library
Eight Time’s Invisible Fabric: Telling What Cannot Be Said, Saying What Cannot Be Told
Part Three Three Exemplary Modes
Nine Theater and Opera: Machado’s Operatic Theater of the World
Ten Delirium, Hallucination, and Dream: Flying Through Time on a Delirious Trapeze
Eleven Humanitas and Satire: Machado’s Mad Philosopher
Part Four The Actor-Authors
Twelve Brás Cubas, Basso Buffo
Thirteen Bento Santiago’s Grand Dissimulation
Fourteen The Love-Death Theme of Counselor Ayres
Part Five Conclusion
Fifteen Machado and the Spectacle of the World
Notes
A Note on Sources
Credits
Index
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