Abstract
In this inaugural essay, Raymond S. Sayers follows Machado de Assis's process of musical education, while observing increasingly sophisticated references to music in Machadian fiction. After mapping the broader soundscape in which the writer, his narrators and characters exist, the essayist focuses on the dialogue between Machado de Assis's novels and Richard Wagner's operas.
Keywords:
Music in Brazil; literature and other arts; German opera; Richard Wagner; Machado de Assis