Reis, Amândio2017-12-192017-12-1920172469-4800http://hdl.handle.net/10451/30131In the context of Machadian studies, the present volume is a welcome surprise. Aidoo and Silva are both US-based specialists in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature and culture, and they propose to reevaluate this literature from a multidisciplinary perspective. Despite the chosen title, Emerging Dialogues includes not only original works and ideas but also pre-existing material on the Machado de Assis. This is the case of the foreword by Nelson H. Vieira, which, resulting from a lecture delivered in 2008, now offers an insightful panorama of Machado’s life and work and a thorough yet helpfully succinct history of the criticism devoted to the author from its origins to 2015.engAssis, Machado de, 1839-1908 - Crítica e interpretaçãoLiteratura brasileirareviewhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21471/jls.v2i1.167