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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Library of Latin America) List Price: $34.99 Amazon.com's Price: $31.49 You Save: $3.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9780195101706 ISBN: 0195101707 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: December 10, 1998 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Release Date: December 10, 1998 Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Fans of Latin American literature will be thrilled by Oxford University Press's new translations of works by 19th-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. His novels are both heartbreaking and comic; his limning of a colonial Brazil in flux is both perceptive and remarkably modern. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is written as an autobiography, a chronicle of the erotic misadventures of its narrator, Brás Cubas--who happens to be dead. In pursuit of love and progeny, Cubas rejects the women who want him and aspires to the ones who reject him. In the end, he dies unloved and without heirs, yet he somehow manages to turn this bitter pill into a victory of sorts. What makes Memoirs stand up 100 years after the book was written is Machado's biting humor, brilliant prose, and profound understanding of all the vagaries of human behavior. Product Description: "Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sa Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Poorly printedI returned this book because the print on many pages was blurred making them unreadable. I think this is unacceptable in a paperback at this price. Rating:  - Excelent novel!I read this book in Portuguese and it is the only novel I read 3 (yes, three) times in my life. It is hilariously ironic and sarcastic from the dedication through the very last word. "To the worm that first ate the cold flesh of my cadaver I dedicate as a wistful memento this posthumous memoirs." Rating: - Brilliantbrilliant, savage, heart-wrenching, hilarious, post-modern a century before its time -- there are simply not enough words to describe this novel's genius. It is a masterpiece of social criticism. If you're waffling about reading this novel, waffle no more: it will shake your world. Rating:  - Brazil's upper class changed almost nothing, in 130 yearsI read this book, here in Brazil, about twenty years ago.This book even being a fiction, could have be a biography, about a brazilian upper class man. Being writen in XIX Century, this book remains usefull.Since when this book was writen, slavery became over and tecnology changed the brazilian life.The best in this book is to show, how almost nothing was changed, in brazilian upper class' mentality in almost 140 years later.Such as brazilian upper class today, Bras Cubas hates the poors, he ... Read More Rating: - Wanna know about life after death? Wrong way!The story begins by the end, literally,by showing the end of the narrator's life. From this moment on we are compelled to see how his life had been, his evaluations, regrets and happy moments. Read to whom (or "which") he dedicates the book. There's a movie version that is perfect and hillarious! A must read if you like dark, but still extremely intelligent, humor. 
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