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Author(s):	Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

Date:	2020	Format:	EPUB	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1631495321
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"Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?" Parul Sehgal, New York Times

Machado de Assiss classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for twenty-first-century readers.

I passed away at two oclock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city. So begins Machado de Assiss Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas, told eerily from beyond the grave. First appearing in Brazil in 1881, this remarkably experimental novel was never intended by its author to be a popular run-of-the-mill-novel.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves, was not, originally, expecting literary encomiums in his lifetime, especially not for Brs Cubas. And yet, his prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories would influence generations of South American writers. Now, with this coruscating new translation of one of his most compelling novels, esteemed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machados career, as his flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark.

In eloquent, contemporary prose, Costa and Patterson breathe new life into the dynamic character of Brs Cubas and reveal the vivid, tempestuous Rio de Janeiro of his time. The recently deceased Cubas narrates his life story, admitting glibly: I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write. His life, therefore, is relayed out of order, beginning with his funeral, and then stepping back to offer a brief genealogical sketch. An enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable anti-hero, Cubas describes his childhood spent tormenting household slaves and meddling cheekily in adult affairs, through his bachelor years navigating his own torrid affairs, up to his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices.

Fantastical in structure and enthralling in tone, Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas is a deeply human story of a somber lifehow much of it reflects the authors own personality we will never know. At once a work of uproarious mockery and great sympathy, this is Machado de Assis at his most pathbreaking: an incisive observer of the human condition, and a founding father of modernist fiction.

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