PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hélio de Seixas Guimarães TI - Uma vocação em busca de línguas AID - 10.1353/lbr.0.0057 DP - 2009 Jun 01 TA - Luso-Brazilian Review PG - 36--44 VI - 46 IP - 1 4099 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/46/1/36.short 4100 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/46/1/36.full SO - Luso-Braz Rev2009 Jun 01; 46 AB - During Machado de Assis’ lifetime, literary and editorial productions became more and more internationalized, with intense circulation of fictional and non-fictional texts among periodicals from the two Hemispheres and varying latitudes. This article examines how Machado participated in this process, reading and collaborating with foreign publications, publishing some of his novels in spaces disputed with translated “ feuilletons,” engaging himself in three frustrated attempts to be translated into German and finally trying to have his works published in Portugal.