A Master on the Periphery of CapitalismA Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarzs renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (18391908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of misplaced ideas, Schwarz focuses his literary and cultural analysis on Machados The Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas, which was published in 1880. Writing in the Marxist tradition, Schwarz