Ndipei mabhuku akanakisisa akanyorwa naMachado de Assis
Context:Machado akakwanisa kusimuka mubasa rake rehurumende, kutanga muDhipatimendi reZvekurima. Makore matatu gare gare, akava mukuru wechikamu mairi. Akabudisa mabhuku maviri enhetembo: Falenas, muna 1870, uye Americanas, muna 1875. Kugamuchirwa kwadzo kusina simba kwakamuita kuti aongorore mimwe mifananidzo yokunyora.  Akanyora zvinyorwa zvishanu zvorudo: Ressurreição, A Mão e a Luva, Helena naIaiá Garcia. Mabhuku acho akafarirwa nevoruzhinji, asi vatsoropodzi vemabhuku vaiona seasingakoshi. Machado akatambura kurwiswa kwakadzokororwa kwepfari, sezviri pachena kwakabatana nokunzwa kworufu rweshamwari yake yekare José de Alencar. Akasiyiwa akasuruvara, asina tariro uye akazvipira kurufu. Bhuku rake rinotevera, rakaratidzirwa ne"rwiyo rwokusatenda uye rwechokwadi": Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Memoirs of Brás Cubas, rakashandurwawo seEpitaph of a Small Winner), rinoonekwa zvikuru sebasa guru. Pakupera kwema1880, Machado akanga ava kuzivikanwa zvikuru somunyori.  Kunyange zvazvo airamba uranda, haana kumbotaura pachena achiruramba. Aidzivisa kukurukura zvematongerwe enyika. Akatsoropodzwa neanobvisa mutemo José do Patrocínio uye nemunyori Lima Barreto nekuda kwekugara kure nezvematongerwo enyika, kunyanya chikonzero chekubvisa mutemo. Vakamutsoropodzawo nokuti akanga aroora mukadzi muchena. Machado akabatwa nekushamisika nehumambo hwakakandirwa pasi musi wa15 Mbudzi 1889. Machado akanga asina tsitsi kuhurumende yehurumende, sezvo akazviona semunhu anonzwira tsitsi uye anokudza Pedro II, uyo waaiona se "munhu anozvininipisa, akatendeseka, akadzidza uye anoda nyika, uyo aiziva nzira yekuita chigaro cheumambo chigaro [nokuda kwekunzwisisa kwake], pasina kuderedza ukuru uye kuremekedzwa kwayo". Apo komisheni yakaenda kuhofisi yevoruzhinji kwaaishanda kuti ibvise mufananidzo womuchinda aimbova mambo, Machado anonyara akavapikisa: "Mufananidzo wacho wakapinda pano nomurayiro uye unofanira kubuda bedzi nomurayiro mumwe".  Kuberekwa kworuzhinji rweBrazil kwakaita kuti Machado ave anotsoropodza zvikuru uye muoni wenzanga yeBrazil yenguva yake. Kubvira ipapo, akanyora "kwete bedzi mabhuku makuru zvikurusa enguva yake, asi makuru zvikurusa enguva dzose ezvinyorwa zveBrazil". Mabasa akadai saQuincas Borba (Philosopher kana Imbwa?) (1891), Dom Casmurro (1899), Esaú e Jacó (1904) uye Chirangaridzo de Aires (1908), inofungidzirwa semabasa makuru, akabudirira nevose vatsoropodzi uye neruzhinji. Muna 1893 akabudisa "A Missa do Galo" ("Misa yepakati pousiku"), inoonekwa sengano yake pfupi huru.
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, Quincas Borba, Dom Casmurro, Esaú e Jacó, Chirangaridzo cheAires uye A Missa do Galo