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"There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born."
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

Brazilian writer Machado de Assis was born #OTD in 1839.

Considered the father of realism in Brazil, he wrote Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba & several books of short stories. He also wrote poetry and was an active literary critic, as well as being one of the creators of the chronicle in the country.

Books by Machado de Assis at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9685

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