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Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - A Novel (Paperback)
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"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in
August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of
the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of
the narrator's life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental
novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis' definitive
work-a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to
the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this
coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin
Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado's career, as his
flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic,
amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Bras Cubas describes
his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his
bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over
nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist
fiction, Bras Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in
the Time of Cholera.
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