Nameless Flower
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Martinha, in her forties, finds herself alone. She has only the old aunt she lives with. One day, going through the mementos of her youth, she comes across a dried flower and reminisces about the circumstances in which, rare, beautiful, and fresh, it was given to her.
Genre: short story
Length: 2,000 words
Translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen
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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Nameless Flower - Machado De Assis
Nameless Flower
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Translated by Juan LePuen
First published as Flor Anônima
in Almanaque da Gazeta, 1897
English translation copyright 2013 Fario and Juan LePuen
Published at Smashwords by Fario and Juan LePuen
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Nameless Flower
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Nameless Flower
A clear morning. It is Martinha’s soul that has awoken in gloom. She had gone to a wedding the night before, and on returning home with the aunt who lives with her, she could not disguise the sadness that other people’s happiness, especially the bride and groom’s, had caused her.
Martinha was about. . . . She had been born years earlier. Everybody in