"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 Posthumous Memoirs of Br�s Cubas-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 ...
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"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 Posthumous Memoirs of Br�s Cubas-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, Br�s 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, Br�s Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; Very Good Condition and Unread! Text is clean and unmarked! Light shelf wear to cover from storage, small bruise. Has a small black line or red dot on bottom/exterior edge of pages.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; remainder dot on bottom edge; dj a bit dirty; gift inscription in ball point pen on first free endpaper. 6.4 x 1 x 9.6 inches. Translated from the Portuguese and introduced by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson; include a biographical sketch of Machado de Assis.
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