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Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Portuguese)
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Portuguese)
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The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, 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 (translated also as Epitaph of a Small Winner), 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 halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Joyce to Nabokov to Borges to Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world.
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
O neto mestiço de ex-escravos, Machado de Assis não é apenas o escritor mais celebrado do Brasil, mas também um escritor de estatura mundial, que foi defendido por nomes como Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike e Salman Rushdie. Em sua obra-prima, o romance de 1881 Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (também traduzido como Epitáfio de um Pequeno Vencedor), o fantasma de um aristocrata decadente e desagradável decide escrever sua autobiografia. Ele a dedica aos vermes que roem seu cadáver e conta sobre seus romances fracassados e ambições políticas desinteressadas, apresenta filosofias malucas e reclama com entusiasmo das profundezas de sua cova. Selvagemente imaginativo, diabolicamente espirituoso e à frente de seu tempo, o romance foi comparado à obra de todos, de Cervantes a Sterne, de Joyce a Nabokov, de Borges a Calvino, e influenciou gerações de escritores em todo o mundo.
Language: Portuguese