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Esau and Jacob : a novel / by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe ; edited with a foreword by Dain Borges ; and an afterword by Carlos Felipe Moisés.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machado de Assis, 1839-1908, author.
- Series:
- Library of Latin America.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Library of Latin America
- Oxford scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Esaú e Jacó. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twins--Fiction.
- Twins.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Brazil--Fiction.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of a heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a story of the petty squabbles, conflicting ambitions, doubts, and insecurities that are part of the human condition.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Foreword; A Note to the Reader; Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; I: Things of the Future!; II: Better Going Down than Going Up; III: The Alms of Happiness; IV: The Carriage Mass; V: There are Contradictions that Can Be Explained; VI: Maternity; VII: Gestation; VIII: Neither Boy and Girl, nor a General; IX: View of the Palace; X: The Vow; XI: A Unique Case!; XII: That Man Aires; XIII: The Epigraph; XIV: The Lesson of the Pupil; XV: ""Teste David Cum Sybilla""; XVI: Paternalism; XVII: Everything that I Leave Out; XVIII: How They Grew Up
- XIX: Just Two-Forty Years-Third ReasonXX: The Jewel; XXI: An Obscure Point; XXII: Now a Leap; XXIII: When You Have a Beard; XXIV: Robespierre and Louis XVI; XXV: Dom Miguel; XXVI: The Battle of the Portraits; XXVII: About an Inopportune Thought; XXVIII: The Rest is True; XXIX: The Younger Person; XXX: The Batista Family; XXXI: Flora; XXXII: The Retiree; XXXIII: Solitude Is Also Tedious; XXXIV: Inexplicable; XXXV: About the Young Lady; XXXVI: Discord Is Not as Ugly as Is Said; XXXVII: Discord in Accord; XXXVIII: A Timely Arrival; XXXIX: A Thief; XL: Memories; XLI: The Incident of the Donkey
- XLII: An HypothesisXLIII: The Speech; XLIV: The Salmon; XLV: Muse, Sing...; XLVI: Between Acts; XLVII: Matthew 4:1-10; XLVIII: Terpsichore; XLIX: The Old Sign; L: Evaristo's Inkwell; LI: Here Present; LII: A Secret; LIII: Confidences; LIV: Alone at Last!; LV: ""Woman is the Undoing of Man""; LVI: The Blow; LVII: The Shopping Trip; LVIII: The Reunion; LIX: The Night of the 14th; LX: The Morning of the 15th; LXI: Reading Xenophon; LXII: ""Stop on 'D'''; LXIII: A New Sign; LXIV: Peace!; LXV: Between the Sons; LXVI: The Club and the Spade; LXVII: The Whole Night; LXVIII: Morning
- LXIX: At the PianoLXX: A Mistaken Conclusion; LXXI: The Commission; LXXII: The ""Regress""; LXXIII: An Eldorado; LXXIV: Textual Reference; LXXV: A Mistaken Proverb; LXXVI: Perhaps It Was the Same One!; LXXVII: Lodging; LXXVIII: A Visit to the Marshal; LXXIX: Fusion, Diffusion, Confusion; LXXX: Transfusion, Finally; LXXXI: Oh, Two Souls...; LXXXII: In São Clemente; LXXXIII: The Long Night; LXXXIV: The Old Secret; LXXXV: Three Constitutions; LXXXVI: Lest I Forget; LXXXVII: Between Aires and Flora; LXXXVIII: No, No, No; LXXXIX: The Dragon; XC: The Agreement
- XCI: Not Just the Truth Should Be Told to a MotherXCII: A Secret Awakens; XCIII: Neither Weaves nor Unravels; XCIV: Opposing Gestures; XCV: The Third; XCVI: Withdrawal; XCVII: A Private Christ; XCVIII: The Doctor Aires; XCIX: In the Name of Fresh Air; C: Two Heads; CI: The Knotty Case; CII: Visions Require Half-Light; CIII: The Room; CIV: The Answer; CV: Reality; CVI: Both Who?; CVII: State of Siege; CVIII: Old Ceremonies; CIX: At the Foot of the Grave; CX: Let It Fly; CXI: A Summary of Hopes; CXII: The First Month; CXIII: One Beatrice for Two; CXIV: Practice and Bench
- CXV: Exchange of Opinions
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772400-0
- 0-19-993884-9
- 1-280-59505-1
- 9786613624888
- 0-19-976193-0
- OCLC:
- 775460284
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