School Story E-Book

Machado de Assis

• Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2026

Beschreibung

In "School Story", Machado de Assis portrays a seemingly mundane episode from childhood that reveals, with irony and subtlety, the moral formation of a boy. Between fear and guilt, a small bribe for a syntax lesson exposes the tensions between authority, conscience, and social values in 19th-century Brazil.

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School Story

Machado de Assis

SYNOPSIS

In “School Story”, Machado de Assis portrays a seemingly mundane episode from childhood that reveals, with irony and subtlety, the moral formation of a boy. Between fear and guilt, a small bribe for a syntax lesson exposes the tensions between authority, conscience, and social values in 19th-century Brazil.

Keywords

Childhood, Morality, Discipline

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School Story

The school was on Rua do Costa, a small wooden house with a wooden fence. The year was 1840. On that day—a Monday in May—I lingered for a few moments on Rua da Princesa, wondering where I would play that morning. I hesitated between the Morro de S. Diogo and Campo de Sant'Ana, which was not then the current park, a gentleman's construction, but a rustic space, more or less infinite, spread with washerwomen, grass, and loose donkeys. Hill or field? That was the problem. Suddenly I said to myself that the best thing was school. And I headed for school. Here's the reason.