Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação

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

And developing this incredible intelligence for literature, he transcended his background.

Not exactly, because what happened is that he lost both his mother and his father at an early age, and he was brought up by his father.

The stepmother, Maria Inês, who was an Afro-Brazilian woman, and Lúcia Miguel Pereira, in her biography of Machado de Assis, says that she worked in a school for young women.

And apparently he would overhear the lessons and the corridors and get very much interested in what they were studying.

Formal education didn't suit him.

So he would learn French with Madame Gallo.

the baker, classics, Greek, Latin, with Father Silveira Sarmiento, the priest.

When he was 17, he started to go to the bookshop Pereira Brito and frequent literary circles there.

So in addition to reading by himself, studying by himself, he was also learning from people in different social classes and in different levels of education.

Well, the European, you have the tradition of the self-made man, the person who works, who comes out of nothing and builds something extraordinary.

In a way, Bras has everything and he doesn't make anything out of that.

And there is a whole chapter about him trying to be a politician, which is dot, dot, dot.

And that is a big joke that Machado plays with the reader.

How did I become a politician?

There is nothing to be read about it.

In the following chapter, well, I am in my house, I am with my slaves, I'm with my son, my chair, but I keep thinking about the work that I don't have.

This is very typical of the higher classes.

They have everything and they want a little bit more in the Brazilian situation of the 19th century.

But he's still talking about what he could have been.

In a way, it is Brazilian, but it's also very universal in a way because we might have everything, but we still keep thinking about that little thing that didn't happen.

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