Happy birthday, Machado de Assis! (Or, “Who ever heard of putting a lot of crazy people together in one house?”) » MobyLives
Happy solstice! Happy summer! And, not least of all, happy 179th birthday of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, widely regarded as one of Brazil’s greatest-ever writers, and the owner of what must be considered the greatest beard in Latin American history (sorry, Fidel).…