Welcome to the Machado de Assis birthday celebrations 

Machado de Assis was a Brazilian writer, widely recognized by critics, scholars, writers, and readers as the greatest exponent of Brazilian literature. His literary output encompassed virtually every genre, including poetry, novels, chronicles, drama, short stories, serials, journalism, and literary criticism. In poetry, he began with the Romanticism of Crisálidas (1864) and Falenas (1870), moving on to Indianism in Americanas (1875), and Parnassianism in Ocidentais (1901). Concurrently, he published the collections Contos fluminenses (1870) and Histórias da meia-noite (1873); the novels Ressurreição (1872), A mão e a luva (1874), Helena (1876), and Iaiá Garcia (1878), considered to belong to his Romantic period.

From then on, Machado de Assis entered the great phase of masterpieces, which escape any denomination of literary school and which made him the greatest writer of Brazilian literature and one of the greatest authors of Portuguese-language literature.