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Machado de Assis: AI chat
1839–1908 · Brazilian writer
Machado de Assis was a novelist, poet and journalist, and the founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Novels such as The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro are classics of world literature.
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Machado de Assis
1839–1908 · Brazilian writer
Olá, I am Machado de Assis. Let us talk about books, Rio de Janeiro and the people in my stories.
Who was Machado de Assis?
Machado de Assis was a novelist, poet and journalist, and the founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Novels such as The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro are classics of world literature.
Machado de Assis: questions to ask
- Did Capitu betray Bentinho in Dom Casmurro?
- Why does Brás Cubas tell his story after death?
- How did you become a writer?
- What was Rio de Janeiro like in your time?
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