Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-645).
Introduction : Machado de Assis--The location of an author / João Cezar de Castro Rocha -- Machado de Assis' reception and the transformation of the modern European novel / Earl E. Fitz -- Dress and female intelligence : intertextuality in Esau and Jacob / Pedro Armando de Almeida Magalhães -- Readings of Balzac in twentieth-century Brazil : the case of Machado de Assis / Gilberto Pinheiro Passos -- Shandean Form: Laurence Sterne and Machado de Assis / Sergio Paulo Rouanet -- Machado de Assis, critic of Eça de Queirós--A symptomatic misunderstanding / João Camilo dos Santos -- Hamlet the Brazilian way (Machado, reader of Shakespeare) / Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos -- Machado de Assis, a contemporary writer / João Almino -- Machado and Modernism / Raúl Antelo -- Machado de Assis on popular music : a case for cultural studies in nineteenth-century Latin America / Idelber Avelar -- Raymundo Faoro, reader of Machado de Assis / Alfredo Bosi -- Around my room and around life / Antonio Candido -- Fictionalizations of the reader in Machado de Assis' novels / Hélio de Seixas Guimarães -- Cannibal metaphor in Machado de Assis / K. David Jackson -- Skeptical paradox in Machado de Assis / Gustavo Bernardo Krause -- Machado and the cost of reading / Marisa Lajolo and Regina Zilberman -- The development of a skeptical life : view in the fiction of Machado de Assis / José Raimundo Maia Neto -- Place of Machado de Assis in the present / Daniel Piza -- Machado de Assis : a keen look at nineteenth-century Brazilian identity / Maria Aparecida Ferreira de Andrade Salgueiro -- Master among the ruins / Michael Wood -- Beautiful form of sadness : Machado de Assis' memorial de aires / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Four stomachs and a brain : an interpretation of Esaú e Jacó / Stephen M. Hart -- How is the second life of Brás Cubas different from his first one? / Victor J. Mendes -- Absence of time : the counselor's dreams / Pedro Meira Monteiro -- (Lack of) feeling of what happens : Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro / Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer -- Irony in Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro : reflections on anti-tragic cordiality / Kathrin H. Rosenfield -- Strategies of deceit : Dom Casmurro / Marta de Senna -- Some unknown chapters of the first version of Quincas Borba serialized in A Estação / Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva -- Sentimental commerce and moral accountancy in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas / Bluma Waddington Vilar -- Picturing Machado de Assis -- Paradox of the alienist / Abel Barros Baptista -- Under the guise of science / Ivo Barbieri -- Paradigms at play : the short stories of Machado de Assis / Paul Dixon -- Short story in the works of Machado de Assis and Horacio Quiroga : a material aesthetic? / Pablo Rocca -- "Rosebud" and the Holy Grail : a hypothesis for re-reading Machado de Assis' short stories / Machado de Assis, the apprentice journalist / Cristiane Costa -- Machado de Assis and nationalism : the Americanas case / José Luís Jobim -- Poetry of Machado de Assis / Cláudio Murilo Leal -- Crônica in fifteen themes / Ana Miranda -- Quincas Borba in A Estação / Marcus Vinicius Nogueira Soares -- Season in Casa Verde / Alfred MacAdam -- Machado de Assis in english : a selected bibliography / Machado de Assis / José Saramago -- Machado de Assis in Portugal / Arnaldo Saraiva