Books to Peel
Peel the author and tap a cover to peel the book
Peel me a Book
Machado de Assis
“I wrote it with the pen of laughter and the ink of melancholy.”
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas
Peel the Author
A Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and chronicler, Machado de Assis is one of the great architects of literary irony. He writes with elegance and mischief, turning the conventions of the novel against themselves while quietly exposing vanity, hypocrisy, class and the strange stories we tell ourselves to feel important. His narrators are unreliable, his asides are wicked, and his jokes often arrive wearing the clothes of philosophy
Voice
“The work speaks for itself: if you like it, dear reader, I shall consider my task fulfilled; if you do not, I shall repay you with a flick on the nose, and goodbye.”
Machado writes as though the reader were his accomplice — then quietly removes the chair from underneath them, leaving vanity, pretension and self-deception to fall in full view.
Tone
elegant · ironic · playful · merciless
Mood
sardonic · mischievous · incisive · philosophical
Peel the layers
Voice
“The work speaks for itself: if you like it, dear reader, I shall consider my task fulfilled; if you do not, I shall repay you with a flick on the nose, and goodbye.”
Machado writes as though the reader were his accomplice — then quietly removes the chair from underneath them, leaving vanity, pretension and self-deception to fall in full view.
Tone
elegant · ironic · playful · merciless
Mood
sardonic · mischievous · incisive · philosophical
Peel the the layers
Author's Peel
Peel the author and tap a cover to peel the book
Books to Peel
Peel the author and tap a cover to peel the book
Peel me a Book
Machado de Assis
“I wrote it with the pen of laughter and the ink of melancholy.”
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas
Peel the Author
A Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and chronicler, Machado de Assis is one of the great architects of literary irony. He writes with elegance and mischief, turning the conventions of the novel against themselves while quietly exposing vanity, hypocrisy, class and the strange stories we tell ourselves to feel important. His narrators are unreliable, his asides are wicked, and his jokes often arrive wearing the clothes of philosophy
Voice
“The work speaks for itself: if you like it, dear reader, I shall consider my task fulfilled; if you do not, I shall repay you with a flick on the nose, and goodbye.”
Machado writes as though the reader were his accomplice — then quietly removes the chair from underneath them, leaving vanity, pretension and self-deception to fall in full view.
Tone
elegant · ironic · playful · merciless
Mood
sardonic · mischievous · incisive · philosophical
Peel the layers
Voice
“The work speaks for itself: if you like it, dear reader, I shall consider my task fulfilled; if you do not, I shall repay you with a flick on the nose, and goodbye.”
Machado writes as though the reader were his accomplice — then quietly removes the chair from underneath them, leaving vanity, pretension and self-deception to fall in full view.
Tone
elegant · ironic · playful · merciless
Mood
sardonic · mischievous · incisive · philosophical
Peel the the layers
Author's Peel
Peel the author and tap a cover to peel the book