Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A Novel

By:

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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Paperback / softback

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? Now considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis's highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work. Narrating from beyond the grave, Br??s Cubas?an enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable antihero?describes his childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs, and his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices. ?Rejuvenated? (Pradeep Niroula, Chicago Review of Books) by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's fresh new translation, Posthumous Memoirs of Br??s Cubas is a work of acerbic mockery and deep pathos that offers a bird's-eye view of how Machado de Assis launched the canon of modernist fiction.?Sprinkled with epigrams, dreams, gags and asides, the story teases, dances and delights.??Economist

Author Biography:

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro and, as well as his seven short-story collections, wrote such groundbreaking novels as Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba and The Alienist. Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England. Robin Patterson has translated José Luandino Vieira and lives in England.

Release date Australia

September 17th, 2021

Author

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Contributors

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Translated by Robin Patterson

Pages

256

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

frontispiece

Dimensions

140x211x18

ISBN-13

9781324090502

Product ID

34633060

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