The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis, 1839-19082021
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Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel 'The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas', the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare-brained philosophies and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave.
Main title:
The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas / Machado de Assis ; translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2021.
Collation:
368 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780143135036 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
BRN:
3108296
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