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«In this provocative study, Greicy Pinto Bellin tackles the received perception of Machado de Assis, the greatest writer of nineteenth-century Brazil, as a docile albeit gifted follower of French literary tradition. Bellin reads Machado’s critical readings and (re)writings of Baudelaire and Poe allegorically to bring out Machado’s project of a Pan-American literary modernity and national identity, where Rio de Janeiro joins forces with Baltimore to counter French hegemony.» (Odile Cisneros, University of Alberta)

In this provocative study, Greicy Pinto Bellin tackles the received perception of Machado de Assis, the greatest writer of nineteenth-century Brazil, as a docile albeit gifted follower of French literary tradition. Bellin reads Machado's critical readings and (re)writings of Baudelaire and Poe allegorically to bring out Machado's project of a Pan-American literary modernity and national identity, where Rio de Janeiro joins forces with Baltimore to counter French hegemony. (Odile Cisneros, University of Alberta)

In this provocative study, Greicy Pinto Bellin tackles the received perception of Machado de Assis, the greatest writer of nineteenth-century Brazil, as a docile albeit gifted follower of French literary tradition. Bellin reads Machado's critical readings and (re)writings of Baudelaire and Poe allegorically to bring out Machado's project of a Pan-American literary modernity and national identity, where Rio de Janeiro joins forces with Baltimore to counter French hegemony. (Odile Cisneros, University of Alberta)

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Greicy Pinto Bellin is a professor in the Department of Literature at Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade (Uniandrade), Brazil. She has published a number of articles on the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Machado de Assis. Her most recent publication is an English translation of ten stories by Machado de Assis, Miss Dollar: Stories by Machado de Assis (2016, with Ana Lessa-Schmidt and Glenn Cheney).

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