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PHILOSOPHER OR DOG? (271 pp.)-Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Clotilde Wilson-Noonday Press ($3.50).
What is reality? The question has furrowed the higher brows from Sophocles and Heraclitus to Pirandello and John Dewey. To Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, who produced the best in 19th century Brazilian literature, the "problem of reality" was not just a metaphysical "What is it?" The problem was a...
Everybody in Brazil knows about Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, or just plain "Chato." To some, Chato, a 63-year-old human tornado, is "a pirate from Paraiba" (his home state) ; to others he is the "only man in Brazil who gets things done." The boss of 28...
Informed on by the Reds, Lacerda was jailed by the police for two weeks. When he got out, he was hired by Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. He was soon running "Chato's" news service, did so well that at 28 he was named editor of O Jornal, Chateaubriand'...
Samuel Wainer, a shrewd, nimble ex-political reporter, is the man who added new razzle-dazzle to Brazilian journalism. Two years ago, Sammy was just a columnist for wealthy Press Lord Assis ("Chato") Chateaubriand (TIME, June 8). But when Sammy came out for ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas in the last...