Literary Classics

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

Machado de Assis 1881

Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas is a romance written by Machado de Assis, initially developed as a folhetim, from March to December 1880, in Revista Brasileira, to, the following year, be published as a book, in the National Typography as Posthumous Memories of Braz Cubas.

The book's trademarks are a caustic tone and a new style in the work of Machado de Assis, as well as audacity and innovation in themes in the national literary cenario, which does not receive, at the time, foreign reviews. Confessing to adopt the "free form" of Laurence Sterne in his Tristram Shandy (1759-67), or of Xavier de Maistre, in Memórias Póstumas breaks with the linear and objectivist narrative of prominent authors of the time, such as Flaubert and Zola, to portray Rio de Janeiro and its time in general with pessimism, irony and indifference. — a two factors that make up what is widely considered a work that began Realism in Brazil, even though it has free elements inherent to Machado de Assis.

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Brazilian romance, Continental European fiction (fiction works by a single author), Social life and customs, Dead, Fiction, Romance literature, General fiction, Autobiography, Ghost stories, Aristocracy (social class), FICTION / Classics, Classics, Architectural decoration and ornament, Medieval architecture, Architecture, Brazil, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Rich peoplePlaces

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Translation of posthumous memoirs of Braz Cubas.

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