The New Generation

  • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
  • Robert Patrick Newcomb University of California, Davis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v1i2.59
Keywords: Literary Theory, Machado de Assis, Brazil, Nineteenth-Century, Modernism

Abstract

“A Nova Geração,” published in December 1879 in the Revista Brasileira, is among the best-known and most substantive works of literary criticism written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908). Beyond its treatment of a heterogeneous group of mostly forgotten Brazilian poets, the essay’s interest lies in its articulation of ideas that would preoccupy Machado as a mature writer. This updated English translation makes this signature work available to new groups of readers.

Author Biography

Robert Patrick Newcomb, University of California, Davis

Robert Patrick Newcomb is Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies at UC Davis. His research focuses on comparative Luso-Hispanic literature. His publications include Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues (Purdue, 2011) and a translation of Alfredo Bosi’s Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization (Illinois, 2015). His translation of Machado de Assis’s “The National Instinct” appeared in Brasil/Brazil 26. 47 (2013).

Published
2016-11-27
Issue
Vol 1 No 2 (2016): Special Dossier Honoring Russell Hamilton
Section
Translations

Copyright (c) 2016 Robert Patrick Newcombe

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