The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

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Cover of the book The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, Oxford University Press, USA
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Author: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos ISBN: 9780199880232
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: November 6, 1997
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos
ISBN: 9780199880232
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: November 6, 1997
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English

Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sa Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.

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Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sa Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.

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