The posthumous memoirs of br s cubas

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**"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New Yorker

A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas

A Penguin Classic**

The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated also as Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Joyce to Nabokov to Borges to Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world.

This new English translation is the first to include extensive notes providing crucial historical and cultural context. Unlike other editions, it also preserves Machado's original chapter breaks--each of the novel's 160 short chapters begins on a new page--and includes excerpts from previous versions of the novel never before published in English.

For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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a revelatory new translation of the playful incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the americasmachado de assis is not only brazil s most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature in his masterpiece the 1881 novel the posthumous memoirs of br s cubas also t Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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Joaquim maria machado de assis 1839 1908 was a writer considered by many critics scholars writers and readers to be the greatest name in brazilian literature machado de assis left a very extensive body of work the result of half a century of literary labor which includes plays poetry p Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Epitaph Of A Small Winner

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i am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased but in the sense of one who has died and is now writing so begins the posthumous memoir of braz cubas a wealthy nineteenth century brazilian while the grave may have given cubas the distance to examine his rathe Uiterlijk 17 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 juni 2020

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

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Hoofdauteur: Machado de Assis

Tweede Auteur: Joachim Maria Machado de Assis

Co Auteur: Machado de Assis

Hoofdredacteur: Enylton de Sa Rego

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Classics

Eerste Vertaler: Flora Thomson-Deveaux

Tweede Vertaler: Flora Thomson-Deveaux

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EAN: 9780525506683

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