The sentences “Out of a regimen of ferocious self-education, he established himself, initially as a writer of slender romances…

The sentences “Out of a regimen of ferocious self-education, he established himself, initially as a writer of slender romances for and about the women of the ruling elite” (lines 42-46) and “In the Anglophone world, a similar kind of confusion surrounds Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son and sly chronicler of Rio de Janeiro” (lines 10-14) are classified, respectively, as