Machado

Brazil's foremost novelist, now a widower heading the Academy of Letters, endures pain and nervous attacks as the colonial capital is torn up for boulevards. He finds a kindred spirit in Mário de Alencar, the son of another great writer, who has similar fits and sends him to the physician Miguel Couto, and the book wonders how such suffering is tied to such genius.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

424 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, early 20th century

First published

2016 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

80 when first published

ISBN

9788535928365 (original)