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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Gilberto Pinheiro Passos is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man,'writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sá Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.

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Author

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Gilberto Pinheiro Passos

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199880232

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.23 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13