Machado De Assis
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He founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1897.
He was multilingual, having learned French, English, German, and Greek in later life.
Machado's work had a major influence on Brazilian literary universities of the late 19th and early twentieth centuries.
The Brazilian Academy of Letters was founded in 1941 in honor of Prêmio Machado de Assis (Machado de Assis Award), the country's most coveted literary award.
Assis is often seen as a writer of pioneering fiction, known for his humour and broad vocabulary.
Dom Casmurro (1899), Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas ("Posthumous Memoirs of a Small Winner") and Quincas Borba (also known in English as Philosopher or Dog) are among Assis' finest works. o.k.a.
Machado de Assis was on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the top 100 geniuses of literature; and although Machado was of mixed ethnicity, Bloom considers him the best black writer in Western literature.
Early career and education
In 1858, Francisco Otaviano hired Machado to work on the newspaper Correo Mercantil as a proofreader. He continued to write for the Marmota Fluminense and occasionally for several other journals, but he didn't make enough and had a humble life. Since he did not live with his father anymore, it was normal for him to eat only once a day out of money.
He became a mentor and liberal politician José de Alencar, who taught him English around this time. He was inspired by Laurence Sterne, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, and Jonathan Swift in English literature. He learned German years later, and in his old age, Greek. In 1860, Bocaiva invited him to work at his newspaper Diário do Rio de Janeiro. Machado had a passion for theater and wrote several plays for a short time; his companion Bocaiva said, "Your works are meant to be read and not performed." He began to be known for posterity as J. M. Machado de Assis, the way he would be known for posterity: Machado de Assis. He established himself in influential Liberal Party circles by speaking out in favour of religious liberty and Ernest Renan's controversial Life of Jesus while criticizing the clergy's venality.
Francisco de Assis, his father, died in 1864. Machado learned of his father's death by acquaintances. "To the Memory of Francisco José de Assis and Maria Leopoldina Leopoldina, My Parents," he dedicated his collection of poems called "Crisálidas" to his father. Machado figured out that with the Liberal Party's ascension to power about that time, he might have been given a patronage role that could help him with his personal life. To his delight, Emperor Dom Pedro II, who recruited him as director-assistant in the Diário Oficial in 1867, knighted him as an honor. Machado was made an officer of the Order of the Rose in 1888.
In 1868, Machado visited Saint Augusta Xavier de Novais, who was five years older than him. She was the niece of Faustino Xavier de Novais, who worked on the magazine O Futuro. Machado had a stammer and was extremely short and lean. He was also a very smart and well-versed. He married Carolina on November 12, 1869, but her parents Miguel and Adelaide disapproved because Machado was of African descent and she was a white woman. They had no children.
Machado's career saw him rise, first in the Agriculture Department, first. He assumed the leadership of a segment three years ago. In 1870, Falenas, and Americanas in 1876, he published two poetry books: Falenas and Americanas. Their inability inspired him to investigate other literary genres.
He wrote five romantic books: Ressurrection, A Mo e Luva, Helena, and Iaiá Garcia. The books were a hit with the public, but literary commentators deemed them mediocre. Machado has suffered with epilepsy attacks that are apparently related to his old friend José de Alencar's death. He was left melancholic, pessimistic, and fixed on death. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Posthumous Memoirs of a Small Winner) is a novel that has been widely regarded as a masterpiece. It is characterized by his skeptical and optimistic tone. Machado had risen to prominence as a writer by the 1880s.
Although he opposed slavery, he never protested it in public. He avoided discussing politics. José do Patrocnio and writer Lima Barreto condemned him for staying away from politics, especially the cause of abolition. They had also chastised him for marrying a white woman. Machado was taken by surprise when the monarchy was overthrown on November 15, 1889. Machado had no sympathy with republicanism, despite recognizing him as a liberal monarchist and patriotic figure [for his simplicity] without losing its majesty and admiration." The timid Machado defied them when he went to the public library, where he had to delete the portrait of the former emperor: "The photograph came in by an order and will not be released until another order."
Machado's rise as a democrat and an observer of the Brazilian society of his time. "Not only the best books of his day, but also the best of all time of Brazilian literature," he wrote from then onward. Quincas Borba (Philosopher or Dog) is a work of art by Quincas Borba. Dom Casmurro (1891), Esa e Jacó (1904), and Memorial de Aires (1908), both critics and the public, were huge hits. He wrote "A Missa do Galo" ("Midnight Mass") in 1893, his first short story.
The Brazilian Academy of Letters was founded by Machado de Assis, alongside fellow monarchists Joaquim Nabuco, Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto and Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, and other writers and scholars. He was the nation's first president from 1897 to 1908, when he died. He requested that the government provide the Academy with a proper headquarters, which he was unable to obtain in 1905. He was transferred from the ministry of Industry's accountancy to the accountancy's steering board in 1902.
Carolina Novais died on October 20th, 1904, after 35 years of "perfect marriage life." Machado died on September 29, 1908, feeling depressed and lonely.