Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Machado just sees it sometimes called the greatest Brazilian writer, but I come to think of him as the Pelé of literature.
Machado did the same thing as Pelé did for football.
He inherited an European tradition, mastered it and transformed it completely, creating it something unmistakably Brazilian and original.
And Machado de Assis was born in Rio de Janeiro, a burgeoning city.
He was the son of Francisco José de Assis and Mariela Paulina Machado de Assis.
His father was a painter.
descendant from freed slaves, and his mother was an Azorean washerwoman.
He grew up in an affluent neighborhood, but connected to a working class family.
He was
baptized by Donna Maria José de Mendonça, the wife of a senator.
So he grew up going in and out of her mansion and going back to his working class family.
She was his godmother and he would go to her house to have meals and to be with her.
Well, it's where his father and mother would work.
This is basically where he would paint their houses, she would wash their clothes.
And that was a patronage relationship.
It was very slim.
It was believed that he was going to follow the footsteps of his father and become rich.
a painter or some sort of manual worker.
But effectively, his health wasn't so great.
So he started working, selling sweets, but then he wasn't strong enough.
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