AevumMethod · November 6, 2026
How we checked the 1908 text
From a public-domain text to the printed page: what we changed in Memorial de Aires, what we kept and why.
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Notes on books, texts and the craft of editing.
Books · November 6, 2026
Memorial de Aires, a diary to read slowly
The last book Machado de Assis published in his lifetime is a diary in which almost nothing happens and almost everything is hinted at.
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What an annotated edition is (and what it is not)
Well-made footnotes help you read a classic without getting in the way. Badly made ones do the opposite. Here is how we think about them.
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