Allen sobre Machado

I just got this in the mail one day. Some stranger in Brazil sent it and wrote, "You'll like this". Because it's a thin book, I read it. If it had been a thick book, I would have discarded it.
I was shocked by how charming and amusing it was. I couldn't believe he lived as long ago as he did. You would've thought he wrote it yesterday. It's so modern and so amusing. It's a very, very original piece of work. It rang a bell in me, in the same way that "The catcher in the rye" did. It was about subject matter that I liked and it was treated with great wit, great originality and no sentimentality.

Woody Allen, sobre "Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas", do Machado de Assis. Daqui. [via]