Short Stories by Machado de Assis (Vol. 3) - Philosophy

In the third book, PHILOSOPHY, short stories such as "A Wonderful Excursion," "The Sainete," "In the Ark," "The Bonze's Secret," and others are presented as texts that produce thought through events, characters, and the flow of life—or, in the words that give the volume its title, they show literature as a philosophy that never stops thinking. It is through fictionality, not through renouncing it, that Machados de Assis's texts, as "thought in action," offer the reader the possibility of exploring new horizons through the lives the texts give us to experience.