Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Earl E. Fitz, Machado de Assis (1989); Paul B. Dixon, Retired Dreams: Dom Casmurro, Myth, and Modernity (1989); John Gledson, The Deceptive Realism of Machado de Assis (1984); G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (2012); K. David Jackson, Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (2015).

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Media added. Aug 11, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 17, 2026
Anniversary information added. Sep 25, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Mar 25, 2024
Bibliography updated. May 06, 2019
English translations of story collections added; differing critical interpretations noted. May 06, 2019
Modified link of Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Apr 26, 2019
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. May 22, 2015
Added photograph. Oct 24, 2012
Bibliography revised. May 16, 2007
Article revised and updated. May 15, 2007
Added new Web site: Biography of Machado de Assis. Dec 05, 2006
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Added new Web site: DSO Kids - Biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully. Dec 04, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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