Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition) - Softcover

Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850515025 ISBN 13: 9780850515022

Publisher: Luso-Brazilian Books, 2005

Synopsis

One of the greatest novels of Brazilian Literature, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is narrated by a dead man who recounts the amorous misadventures of his unheroic life and explains his half-hearted political ambitions. While it is considered the first novel of Brazilian realism, its quirks seem refreshingly modern and make it unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it.

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About the Author:

Widely considered Brazil's greatest writer, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was a self-taught mestizo born in Rio de Janeiro who suffered from epilepsy and a tendency to stutter. But in spite of these difficulties Machado was known for his captivating, pleasant personality. In addition to writing the two most important works of Brazilian fiction, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Machado helped found the Brazilian Academy of Letters and served as its first president until his death. The Academy then gained the nickname "House of Machado de Assis." While Machado's work covered nearly every literary genre, in was in the novel where he made his greatest contribution, introducing realism to Brazilian literature and even foreshadowing modernism with his psychological focus, quirky comments outside of the plot and tendency to blur the line between fiction and reality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Luso-Brazilian Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0850515025
• ISBN 13: 9780850515022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176