Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2020-08-04
Förlag
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Översättare
Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson
Illustratör/Fotograf
frontispiece
Illustrationer
frontispiece
Dimensioner
234 x 155 x 28 mm
Vikt
499 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781631495328

Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas

A Novel

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"I passed away at two oclock 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 Brs Cubasat the end of the narrators life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis definitive worka 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 Machados career, as his flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Brs 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, Brs Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in the Time of Cholera.
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"One of the wittiest, most playful, and therefore most alive and ageless books ever written." -- Dave Eggers "An offbeat, invigorating classic is perfect reading for a morbid summer." -- The Economist

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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (18391908) was born in Rio de Janeiro and, as well as his seven short-story collections, wrote such groundbreaking novels as Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas, Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba and The Alienist. Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Maras and Jos Saramago, lives in England. Robin Patterson has translated Jos Luandino Vieira and lives in England.