Starting from obscure points which have never been revealed in Machado de Assis’s life, the author constructs the fiction of a possible biography to the Wizard of Cosme Velho based on research. The starting point for the narrative is Pedro Junqueira’s point of view, a fictional character. He meets Machado in his childhood. When he was six years old, after his mother’s death, he arrives at the house in Morro do Livramento to live with his aunt, Dona Maria José. Soon the child has disagreements with Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, whom he hates and envies since they have first met, and these feelings will follow him throughout his life. In his youth, Pedro leaves to study in Portugal, where he meets Carolina Novaes and starts a relationship with her.