Book review: Aidoo, Lamonte, and Daniel F. Silva, editors. Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

摘要

In the context of Machadian studies, the present volume is a welcome surprise. Aidoo and Silva are both US-based specialists in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature and culture, and they propose to reevaluate this literature from a multidisciplinary perspective. Despite the chosen title, Emerging Dialogues includes not only original works and ideas but also pre-existing material on the Machado de Assis. This is the case of the foreword by Nelson H. Vieira, which, resulting from a lecture delivered in 2008, now offers an insightful panorama of Machado’s life and work and a thorough yet helpfully succinct history of the criticism devoted to the author from its origins to 2015.