Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva

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In Our Time · Machado de Assis · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

It was a very vibrant market for periodicals.

So political newspapers published daily and also these magazines that targeted women included.

and were suited for the domestic sphere.

So Machado was writing short stories, and the short stories were actually a big attraction to the readers for them to subscribe to these magazines.

So he had a very diverse readership, both men, when he was publishing short stories for political newspapers, and women in these fashion magazines.

Well, in terms of the entitlement, Machado is writing to a niche of readers.

So the literacy levels were actually quite low in Brazil.

It was 30% of people could read.

And he was writing to the educated elite, yes.

It's the first novel he publishes in the first person.

So he moves away from the sentimental, omniscient narrator of his first novels.

And in the preface of this specific novel, he says that he's now being in his second phase and he's heavily influenced by Stern and Tristan Shandy.

So we are about to engage with a novel that is going to be digressive.

It's going to be fragmented and very witty and ironic.

So he constructs a character that is going to embrace the blindness of Brazilian elite.

And for many times, critics couldn't understand that he was actually being critical to the status quo because that character who achieves nothing, leaves no legacy, is a failed scientist, a failed politician, a bad lover, is actually represents the failure of the Brazilian elite, yes?

It was extremely well received.

It was first published in a scientific magazine and then a sign of success that it was very quickly published in book form.

And it had all sorts of positive reviews.

that read in favour of this very witty, charming narrator.

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