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Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (–)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (b. 21 June ; d. 29 September ), the greatest figure in Brazilian letters. Machado was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and literary critic; fiction, however, gave him eminence in Brazilian literature.
Biography machado de assis
A contemporary of the romantics, who to some extent influenced him in his formative years, Machado developed a highly personal style.
Machado was born in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, the son of a black house painter and a Portuguese woman from the Azores Islands.
At an early age, he became an orphan and began to earn his own living. He did not receive much formal education. He worked as a typesetter, proofreader, editor, and staff writer. In he married Carolina, the sister of his friend the Portuguese poet Faustino Xavier de Novais.
At thirty-five he joined government service.
When still very young, Machado entered the field of letters, writing poetry, plays, opera librettos, short stori