Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas A Novel

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel Product Description"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of the narrator's life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis' definitive work-a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado's career, as his flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Bras Cubas describes his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist fiction, Bras Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in the Time of Cholera.ReviewA great ironist, a tragic comedian. . . . In his books, in their most comic moments, he underlines the suffering by making us laugh.--Philip RothThe greatest writer ever produced in Latin America.--Susan SontagThe supreme black literary artist to date.--Harold BloomA Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel's Possibilities.... Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881 Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, who translated the monumental 2018 edition of Machado's 'Collected Stories', offer little historical context, only sparse notes. Their book is unadorned, and often better for it, where the common reader is concerned. We encounter the novel not as a relic, encrusted with renown and analysis, much revered and much handled, but in all its freshness and truculent refusal of fiction's tropes. Jull Costa and Patterson also offer the superior translation. The language is honed and specific, effortless yet charged with feeling.--Parul SehgalAbout the AuthorMachado De Assis (1839-1908), the grandson of ex-slaves, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the groundbreaking author of such novels as Quincas Borba and The Alienist, as well as The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis. Award-winning translator Margaret Jull Costa lives in England. Award-winning translator Robin Patterson lives in England. Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 - 2024 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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