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    A Game
    A Game
    A Game
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    A Game

    By Machado de Assis

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    "'Now, you've played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn't écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let's play a game.' Xavier started laughing."

    So says Dona Paula to her husband Xavier before they start playing a card game for neither money nor points.

    Translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen

    Genre: short story
    Length: 6,200 words

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFario
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9781301249091
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    Machado de Assis

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Rio de Janeiro, 21 de junho de 1839 Rio de Janeiro, 29 de setembro de 1908) foi um escritor brasileiro, considerado por muitos críticos, estudiosos, escritores e leitores o maior nome da literatura brasileira.

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      A Game - Machado de Assis

      A Game

      Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

      Translated by Juan LePuen

      First published as Uma Partida in A Estação, 1892

      English translation copyright 2012 Juan LePuen and Fario

      Published at Smashwords by Fario

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      Translator’s Notes

      More from Fario

      I

      I can mention the incident, the year, and the people, though not their real names. I can also mention the province, which was that of Rio de Janeiro. I won’t mention the town or the name of the estate. To do so would be to exceed the bounds of decorum, for no good reason.

      It was long ago; it was 1850. The estate was Colonel X’s—let’s call him Xavier. A lovely main house, a lot of slaves, but not much discipline, and yields less than what they should have been. The overseer, who was good at first, became negligent, as the colonel said to his friends, and the colonel never replaced him, as the colonel’s friends said. A few rumors went around; gossip had it that the planter was obliged to him for certain deaths and that this was the reason for his dependence on him. It wasn’t true. Xavier didn’t have a murderous or even a vengeful heart. He had a harsh temperament, but it never drove him to anything more than a harsh deed or two. It even seemed to be getting softer in recent times. Perhaps he wasn’t really cut out to manage an agricultural estate, but the initial years of his ownership belied this supposition. They were prosperous years of hard work and keen hopes. The third year confirmed some of these hopes, but the fourth year showed a decline, and the following years, some better, some worse, went by without the production’s ever returning to what it had been. Slaves who

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