Mark Twain - Um Candidato Idóneo

While the refractory dimension of Mark Twain's work may still be overshadowed by his most famous texts, this edifying collection of short essays, satires, and speeches, written between 1868 and 1884, restores justice to the matter. In them, Twain embodies, with unparalleled humor, either an American presidential candidate who shamelessly reveals his sordid past, or a resigned civil servant from the Senate's Conchology Committee, "a victim of workplace poisoning." Parodying the rhetorical gestures of speech...