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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1881

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Penguin, London, 2021
358 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780143135036
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Liveright, New York, 2020
256 oldal · ISBN: 9781631495335 · ASIN: B07ZTT43PL · Fordította: Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson
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Penguin, New York, 2020
368 oldal · ISBN: 9780525506683 · ASIN: B081M5RL5S · Fordította: Flora Thomson-DeVeaux

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