Mémoires Posthumes de Braz Cubas by Machado de Assis
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"Mémoires Posthumes de Braz Cubas" by Machado de Assis is a novel published in 1880. A dead man narrates his own life story from beyond the grave, beginning with his funeral and working backward through his privileged existence in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Through caustic wit and philosophical satire, he recounts romantic failures, adulterous affairs, political ambitions, and his obsessive quest for glory—all told with ironic detachment that breaks from traditional narrative
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| Author | Machado de Assis, 1839-1908 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Delpech, Adrien, 1867-1942 |
| Title | Mémoires Posthumes de Braz Cubas |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Posthumous_Memoirs_of_Br%C3%A1s_Cubas |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_posthumes_de_Br%C3%A1s_Cubas |
| Credits |
Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | Rich people -- Fiction |
| Subject | Dead -- Fiction |
| Subject | Brazil -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 60847 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-60847-1 |
| Release Date | Dec 4, 2019 |
| Last Update | Oct 17, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 463 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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