Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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Beschreibung

<p>"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins <em>Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas</em>-at the end of the narrator's life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis' definitive work-a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado's career, as his flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Brás Cubas describes his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist fiction, Brás Cubas shines a direct light to <em>Ulysses</em> and <em>Love in the Time of Cholera</em>.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781324090502

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

206 x 138 x 16 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Liveright Publishing Corporation