Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 1839 1908 was a writer considered by many critics scholars writers and readers to be the greatest name in Brazilian literature Machado de Assis left behind a very extensive body of work the fruit of half a century of literary labor including plays poetry prefaces critiques speeches more than two hundred short stories and several novels Dom Casmurro is one of the most well-known translated and studied works of Macha...