Description
Revisiting the biblical figures of Esau and Jacob through a sharply literary lens, this work traces how inheritance, identity, and moral choice intertwine across generations. With a high-level focus on the tensions between rivalry and reconciliation, it follows the shifting fortunes of two brothers as their lives become a stage for questions of faith, legitimacy, and the stories societies tell to justify power. Machado de Assis’s distinctive style—wry, incisive, and attentive to the psychology beneath public events—turns familiar material into a meditation on human desire and the costs of ambition. Part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, this peer-reviewed reissue brings renewed clarity to a classic conversation about family, destiny, and the ethics of becoming.
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paperback
University of California Press
Published Jan 1, 2022
308 pages
ISBN: 9780520376380
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First Published
1904
Language
eng
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