Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

A Novel

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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 Brás 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 freq… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Costa, Margaret Jull (Übers.) / Patterson, Robin (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-63149-532-8
EAN: 9781631495328
Produktnummer: 32711448
Verlag: WW Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H16.3 cm x B24.2 cm x D2.6 cm 508 g
Abbildungen: frontispiece
Gewicht: 508
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Machado De Assis (1839-1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the groundbreaking author of such works as Quincas Borba, Dom Casmurro, as well as The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis.