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Text in English, Portuguese. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Library of Latin America.

Text in English, Portuguese. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Library of Latin America.

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New York. 1998. Oxford University Press. 1st Oxford Paperback Edition of This

New York. 1998. Oxford University Press. 1st Oxford Paperback Edition of This New Translation. Very Good in Wrappers. 0195101707. Foreword by Enylton De Sa Rego. Afterword by Gilberto Pinheiro Passos. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. Library of Latin America series. 219 pages. paperback. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch. Jacket painting: 'Young Man with a pen (el joven de la estilografica), Diego Rivera. keywords: Latin America Brazil Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-‘Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man, ' writes the extraordinary narrator of THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS. ‘The gaze of public opinion, that sharp and judgmental gaze, loses its virtue the moment we tread the territory of death. I'm not saying that it doesn't reach here and examine and judge us, but we don't care about the examination or the judgment. My dear living gentlemen and ladies, there's nothing as incommensurable as the disdain of the deceased. ' Indeed, writing his memoirs from the other world gives Bras Cubas a certain freedom from both social and literary conventions. And while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. In this wildly inventive book, Machado is, in fact, much closer to such postmodern masters as Calvino, Kundera, and Garcia Marquez than to the conventions of the nineteenth century realist and romantic novel, which the narrator continually and hilariously mocks. Irrepressibly whimsical, irreverent, chatty, and charmingly self-absorbed, Bras Cubas is forever intruding into his narrative, questioning, lecturing, and elbowing the reader, commenting on his writing and its highly unusual style-his book and my style are like drunkards, they stagger left and right, they walk and stop, mumble, yell, cackle, shake their fists at the sky, stumble, and fall'-congratulating himself on particular chapters, wondering whether to cut others out, and interrupting his life story with all manner of digressions, from a philosophical discourse on the purpose of the nose to a visionary ride on the back of a hippopotamus to find the origin of the centuries. Along the way we're treated to a marvelous cast of characters, including the outlandish philosopher Quincas Borba, who asserts that ‘asceticism is the perfection of human idiocy, ' and Virgilia, the beautiful married woman with whom Bras Cubas carries on a passionate and not-so-secret love affair. By turns flippant and profound, THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sá Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, who provide an insightful introduction and afterword, this edition inaugurates Oxford's Library of Latin America series, and brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order. inventory #43663.