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The Devil's Church and Other Stories (Texas Pan American)
The Devil's Church and Other Stories - Texas Pan American Author:Machado De Assis The modern Brazilian short story begins with the mature works of Joaquim Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Machado wrote more than two hundred stories, and no other writer in Brazil achieved his technical mastery of the story form before the 1930s. — Machado's works had a great influence on Br... more »azilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. Jos? Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers, and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."« less