Marianne Gareis wurde 1957 in Süddeutschland geboren. Sie studierte Lateinamerikanistik, Anglistik und Ethnologie an der Freien Universität Berlin und lebte anschließend mehrere Jahre in Portugal. Seit 1989 arbeitet sie als Übersetzerin, zunächst vor allem portugiesischer, seit einigen Jahren verstärkt brasilianischer Literatur. 2014 erhielt sie für ihre Übersetzung des brasilianischen Klassikers »Dom Casmurro« von Machado de Assis den renommierten Straelener Übersetzerpreis der Kunststiftung NRW. Marianne Gareis lebt in Berlin.
17 Ebooks by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro
Der große Klassiker der brasilianischen Literatur in einer Neuübersetzung
Machado de Assis ist der unumstrittene Leitstern unter den Klassikern Brasiliens, sein literarisches Vermächtnis ein Feue …
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German
€14.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Das babylonische Wörterbuch
«Der großartigste lateinamerikanische Autor aller Zeiten.» Susan Sontag
Was wäre geschehen, hätte nicht Jesus die Bergpredigt gehalten, sondern der Teufel? Was, wenn Männer und Frauen ihre Seelen …
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German
€15.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Posthumous Memoirs of Br’as Cubas
"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man, " writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Br?s Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest …
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€26.02
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Esau and Jacob
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 …
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€13.56
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Posthumous Memoirs of Br’as Cubas
"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man, " writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Br?s Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest …
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€29.97
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro
"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the …
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€14.58
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro
"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the …
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€14.47
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Esau and Jacob
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 …
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€15.64
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel
“Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times
Now considered a progenitor of …
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€16.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year
A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.
Widely accl …
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€33.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Machado de Assis: 26 Stories
This “watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories. Widely acclaimed as “the greatest writer ever pr …
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€14.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: ‘El alienista’ y otros cuentos
Entre los textos aquí reunidos destaca El alienista; en él se nos relata la vuelta a su ciudad natal del doctor Simón Bocamarte, quien en su afán por estudiar la locura construye su propio manicomio, …
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Spanish
€9.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Resurrection
Machado de Assis’s first novel visits themes the author developed exquisitely throughout his career including marriage, memory, and perspective. In this insightful translation by Karen Sherwood …
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€16.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro: A Novel
A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur. Originally published in 1899,
Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be J …
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€29.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Um mês de poesia com Machado de Assis
Coletânea de poemas de Machado de Assis, com seleção e Introdução por Maria Celeste de Castro Machado.
Machado de Assis é uma referência mundial da literatura brasileira, elogiado por José Saramago, …
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€2.99
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Quincas Borba: A Novel
A vibrant new translation of Machado de Assis’s classic novel about a young man flush with newfound wealth, who promptly gets swindled.
Hailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer, Machado d …
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€29.99
