de Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado, Gledson, John, Hansen, João Adolfo (1998). Dom Casmurro. Oxford University Press, "Foreword". ISBN 13 978-0-19-510309-0.
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(en) Sontag, Susan, "Afterlives: The Case of Machado de Assis", 29 april 1990, p. 102. Gearchiveerd op 17 april 2021. Geraadpleegd op 30 maart 2021. “Even more remarkable than Machado's absence from world literature is that he has been very little known and read in Latin America outside Brazil--as if it were still hard to digest the fact that the greatest author ever produced in Latin America wrote in the Portuguese, rather than the Spanish, language. Borges, the second-greatest writer produced on that continent, seems never to have read Machado de Assis.”
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(en) Sontag, Susan, "Afterlives: The Case of Machado de Assis", 29 april 1990, p. 102. Gearchiveerd op 17 april 2021. Geraadpleegd op 30 maart 2021. “Even more remarkable than Machado's absence from world literature is that he has been very little known and read in Latin America outside Brazil--as if it were still hard to digest the fact that the greatest author ever produced in Latin America wrote in the Portuguese, rather than the Spanish, language. Borges, the second-greatest writer produced on that continent, seems never to have read Machado de Assis.”