Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas by Machado de Assis
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Machado de Assis, 1839-1908
Portuguese
"Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas" by Machado de Assis is a novel published in 1881. Narrated by a dead man from beyond the grave, this darkly comic autobiography traces the life of Brás Cubas, a privileged Brazilian born into Rio de Janeiro's elite. Through cynical wit and non-linear storytelling, the "defunto-autor" recounts his selfish childhood...
while satirizing slavery, social class, and nineteenth-century society with unprecedented irony and pessimism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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