Machado de Assis - As Histórias do Futuro de Machado de Assis

This book selects twenty-five works of fiction from the best and most representative short fiction by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), specifically those that possess the greatest contemporary relevance and in which, from the past, the brilliant writer managed to speak and narrate for successive futures to come; those, ultimately, that always help us better understand ourselves.

The gigantic fictional aspect of the short work of such a brilliant writer, more than a hundred years later, continues to speak at length about the human cosa Boccacciana to our hearts and minds, deserving, indeed, to feature in our modern sensibility for the numerous occasions on which it authentically addressed our feelings, greatness, contradictions, and limitations.