The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
1881 novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Portuguese: Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas, modern spelling Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas), also translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner, is a novel by the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (born in Rio de Janeiro City, then Imperial Capital of Brazil).
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Author | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis |
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Original title | Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas |
Translator | Gregory Rabassa |
Country | Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) |
Language | Portuguese |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (Eng. Trans. hardback edition) |
Publication date | 1881 (1 October 1997 Eng. translation) |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 238 p. (Eng. Trans. hardback edition) |
ISBN | 0-19-510169-3 (Eng. Trans. hardback edition) |
OCLC | 35586796 |
869.3 20 | |
LC Class | PQ9697.M18 M513 1997 |
Published in 1881, the novel has a unique style of short, erratic chapters shifting in tone and style. Instead of the clear and logical construction of a normal nineteenth-century realist novel, the novel makes use of surreal devices of metaphor and playful narrative construction. It is considered the first novel of the realist movement in Brazil.