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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

A Novel

Av Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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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 Brás 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, 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 Ulysses and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-08-17
  • Mått: 117 x 232 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 209 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781324090502
  • Översättare: Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro and is the groundbreaking author of such works as Dom Casmurro and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. The peerless translator MARGARET JULL COSTA has won countless prizes for her translations from Portuguese and Spanish. Robin Patterson has translated works by José Luandino Vieira and José Luís Peixoto. With Margaret Jull Costa, he has also co-translated works by Machado de Assis and Fernando Pessoa.

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"The most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel I read this year was originally published in 1881. Jull Costa and Patterson offer a peerless translation of this comic masterpiece, narrated from beyond the grave by a feckless, pretentious, impossibly winning aristocrat. The Brazilian novelist Machado was besotted with the license afforded by fiction and the social critique permitted only by comedy. Read this witty, wildly inventive work and how conservative, how painfully corseted so much modern fiction will suddenly seem."

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