Books with author Machado de Assis

The Devil's Church is a short story, but very interesting; told by one of the greatest writers of the Portuguese Language, it is simply a fabulous story of how the Devil in a stroke of master one day decided to found a church, because he saw that Heaven had more allies because God had churches on Earth. Determined in the mission of opening a church to aggregate all humanity with his evil teachings, the devil discovers that it is not so easy to keep the flock in the greatest evil, because his followers are liars, full of malice and pretense. The devil even being present to question the errors of his followers, he cannot understand the reason for so many deviations and is forced to fly to Heaven to question God why his faithful are so corrupt that they are not following his doctrine. The answer is...Read now and discover the devil's funny and clumsy cunning.

Set in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the abolition of slavery in 1888, this tells the poignant story of an elderly diplomat captivated by a beautiful young widow. Imbued with autumnal sadness, it shrewdly and ironically portrays a man coming to terms with the passing of the world he knows, and with his own old age and death. De Assis (1839-1908) displays in his ninth novel the dry wit and measured understanding of human nature that earned him his reputation as Brazil's first major writer."" - Publishers Weekly. ""It is not enough to say that he is an important American novelist; he is one of the masters in either hemisphere."" - NY Times.

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