The
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
by Joaquim Maria Machado de
Assis (Author), Flora Thomson-DeVeaux (Editor, Translator, Introduction), &
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"One
of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever
written." --Dave Eggers, The New Yorker
A
revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of
the greatest black authors in the Americas
A
Penguin Classic
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.
This new English translation is
the first to include extensive notes providing crucial historical and cultural
context. Unlike other editions, it also preserves Machado's original chapter
breaks--each of the novel's 160 short chapters begins on a new page--and
includes excerpts from previous versions of the novel never before published in
English.
Product
details
Paperback : 368 pages
Publisher : Penguin Classics
(June 2, 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0143135031
ISBN-13 : 978-0143135036
Product Dimensions : 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.7 inches
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