Papeis Avulsos
By Machado de Assis
Cover: O Ateliê do Artista (1886), painting by Almeida Júnior (1850–1899) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1899)
Machado de Assis's 1882 collection, which opens with O Alienista, in which a doctor founds an asylum in a small town and begins locking up more and more of its people. The other stories are ironic tales of vanity, ambition and human nature.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.