The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

Author: Machado de Assis

Fans of Latin American literature will be thrilled by Oxford University Press’s new translations of works by 19th-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. His novels are both heartbreaking and comic; his limning of a colonial Brazil in flux is both perceptive and remarkably modern. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is written as an autobiography, a chron….Read More

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