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The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas / by Machado de Assis ; translated with an introduction and notes by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux.
Van Pelt Library PQ9697.M18 M513 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machado de Assis, 1839-1908, author.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiography--Fiction.
- Autobiography.
- Ghost stories.
- Aristocracy (Social class)--Fiction.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 324 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
- Summary:
- "A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas. 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 Ginsburg, 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, in 160 brief chapters, 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 utterly unforgettable, it is a novel ahead of its time that has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Borges to Joyce to Nabokov to Calvino, and that 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 and also includes excerpts from previous versions of the novel never before published in English"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS
- To the Reader
- ch. I The Demise of the Author
- ch. II The Plaster
- ch. III Genealogy
- ch. IV The Fixed Idea
- ch. V In Which a Lady Betrays Herself
- ch. VI Chimene, Qui L'eut Dit? Rodrigue, Qui L'eut Cm?
- ch. VII The Delirium
- ch. VIII Reason Versus Folly
- ch. IX Transition
- ch. X On That Day
- ch. XI The Child Is Father of the Man
- ch. XII An Episode from 1814
- ch. XIII A Leap
- ch. XIV The First Kiss
- ch. XV Marcela
- ch. XVI An Immoral Reflection
- ch. XVII Concerning the Trapeze and Other Matters
- ch. XVIII A Vision in the Hallway
- ch. XIX On Board
- ch. XX I Take My Degree
- ch. XXI The Muleteer
- ch. XXII Return to Rio
- ch. XXIII Sad, but Short
- ch. XXIV Short, but Happy
- ch. XXV In Tijuca
- ch. XXVI The Author Hesitates
- ch. XXVII Virgflia?
- ch. XXVIII Provided That
- ch. XXIX The Visit
- ch. XXX The Flower of the Thicket
- ch. XXXI The Black Butterfly
- ch. XXXII Born Lame
- ch. XXXIII Blessed Are They That Go Not Down
- ch. XXXIV To a Sensitive Soul
- ch. XXXV The Road to Damascus
- ch. XXXVI On the Subject of Boots
- ch. XXXVII At Last!
- ch. XXXVIII The Fourth Edition
- ch. XXXIX The Neighbor
- ch. XL In the Coach
- ch. XLI The Hallucination
- ch. XLII Which Escaped Aristotle
- ch. XLIII A Marchioness, for I'll Be a Marquis
- ch. XLIV A Cubas!
- ch. XLV Notes
- ch. XLVI The Inheritance
- ch. XLVII The Recluse
- ch. XLVIII A Cousin of Virginia's
- ch. XLIX The Tip of the Nose
- ch. L Virgilia, Married
- ch. LI Mine!
- ch. LII The Mysterious Parcel
- Chapter LIII
- ch. LIV The Pendulum Clock
- ch. LV The Age-Old Dialogue of Adam and Eve
- ch. LVI The Opportune Moment
- ch. LVII Fate
- ch. LVIII Trust
- ch. LIX An Encounter
- ch. LX The Embrace
- ch. LXI A Plan
- ch. LXII The Pillow
- ch. LXIII Let's Run Away!
- ch. LXIV The Transaction
- ch. LXV Eyes and Ears
- ch. LXVI Legs
- ch. LXVII The Little House
- ch. LXVIII The Whip
- ch. LXIX A Dash of Lunacy
- ch. LXX Dona Placida
- ch. LXXI The Flaw in the Book
- ch. LXXII The Bibliomaniac
- ch. LXXIII Refreshments
- ch. LXXIV The Story of Dona Placida
- ch. LXXV To Myself
- ch. LXXVI Manure
- ch. LXXVII Rendezvous
- ch. LXXVIII The Presidency
- ch. LXXIX Compromise
- ch. LXXX As a Secretary
- ch. LXXXI Reconciliation
- ch. LXXXII A Matter of Botany
- ch. LXXXIII 13
- ch. LXXXIV The Conflict
- ch. LXXXV The Mountaintop
- ch. LXXXVI The Mystery
- ch. LXXXVII Geology
- ch. LXXXVIII The Invalid
- ch. LXXXIX In Extremis
- ch. XC The Age-Old Colloquy of Adam and Cain
- ch. XCI An Extraordinary Letter
- ch. XCII An Extraordinary Man
- ch. XCIII The Supper
- ch. XCIV The Secret Cause
- ch. XCV The Flowers of Yesteryear
- ch. XCVI The Anonymous Letter
- ch. XCVII Between Lips and Forehead
- ch. XCVIII Taken Out
- ch. XCIX In the Orchestra Seats
- ch. C Probably the Case
- ch. CI The Dalmatian Revolution
- ch. CII A Respite
- ch. Oil Distraction
- ch. CIV It Was He!
- ch. CV Equivalence of Windows
- ch. CVI A Dangerous Game
- ch. CVII Note
- ch. CVIII Which Is Not Understood
- ch. CIX The Philosopher
- ch. CX 31
- ch. CXI The Wall
- ch. CXII Public Opinion
- ch. CXIII Solder
- ch. CXIV End of a Dialogue
- ch. CXV The Lunch
- ch. CXVI Philosophy of Old Papers
- ch. CXVII Humanitism
- ch. CXVIII The Third Force
- ch. CXIX Parenthesis
- ch. CXX Compelle Intrare
- ch. CXXI Downhill
- ch. CXXII A Very Fine Intention
- ch. CXXIII The Real Cotrim
- ch. CXXIV An Interlude
- ch. CXXV Epitaph
- ch. CXXVI Disconsolation
- ch. CXXVII Formality
- ch. CXXVIII In the Chamber
- ch. CXXIX No Remorse
- ch. CXXX To Be Inserted into Chapter CXXIX
- ch. CXXXI On Slander
- ch. CXXXII Not to Be Taken Seriously
- ch. CXXXIII Helvetius's Principle
- ch. CXXXIV Fifty Years
- ch. CXXXV Oblivion
- ch. CXXXVI Uselessness
- ch. CXXXVII The Shako
- ch. CXXXVIII To a Critic
- ch. CXXXIX Of How I Did Not Become a Minister of State
- ch. CXL Which Explains the Previous
- ch. CXLI The Dogs
- ch. CXLII The Secret Request
- ch. CXLIII I Won't Go
- ch. CXLIV Relative Utility
- ch. CXLV Simply Repeating
- ch. CXLVI The Prospectus
- ch. CXLVII Foolishness
- ch. CXLVIII The Insoluble Problem
- ch. CXLIX Theory of Benefits
- ch. CL Rotation and Translation
- ch. CLI Philosophy of Epitaphs
- ch. CLII Vespasian's Coin
- ch. CLIII The Alienist
- ch. CLIV The Ships of Piraeus
- ch. CLV A Warmhearted Thought
- ch. CLVI The Pride of Servility
- ch. CLVTI Brilliant Phase
- ch. CLVIII Two Encounters
- ch. CLIX Semidementia
- ch. CLX On Negatives.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780143135036
- 0143135031
- OCLC:
- 1128105091
- Publisher Number:
- 99993255353
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