Machado de Assis
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Wherever you're listening. I hope you enjoy the program. Hello. Machado de Assis, eighteen thirty nine to nineteen oh eight, is considered the towering figure of modern Brazilian literature, with a global reputation, although arguably not as much as he deserves. The descendant of slaves, Machado wrote many of his novels and almost two hundred short stories, before Brazil abolished slavery in eighteen eighty eight, the last country in the Americas to do so.
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