Now considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis\'s highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work. "Rejuvenated" (Pradeep Niroula, Chicago Review of Books ) by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson\'s fresh new translation, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is a work of acerbic mockery and deep pathos that offers a bird\'s-eye view of how Machado de Assis launched the canon of modernist fiction."Sprinkled with epigrams, dreams, gags and asides, the story teases, dances and delights."-- Economist.
Narrating from beyond the grave, Brás Cubas--an enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable antihero--describes his childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs, and his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices.
Now considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis\'s highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work
