/lit/ - Literature

Machado de Assis is really one of the greatest novelists of world literature.

Do I say that because I'm a hue hue br? Well yes, but I honestly don't think he's at all inferior to Balzac, Joyce, Proust, Tolstoy, Stendhal, Goethe, or whatever great masters of fiction from countries with a more prestigious literary tradition. And I do believe that he'd be held as an equal to them, had he written in French or English, instead of in a language which no one really cares about.