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Machado de Assis’ classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for 21st-century audiences. In eloquent, contemporary prose, Costa and Patterson breathe new life into the dynamic character of Brás Cubas and reveal the vivid, tempestuous Rio de Janeiro of his time. The recently deceased Cubas narrates his life story, admitting glibly: “I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write.”

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America", surpassing even Borges. Harold Bloom says that Machado is "the supreme black literary artist to date". And Allen Ginsburg calls him "another Kafka". And The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is his masterpiece, a dazzling, tragic, and profound novel that belongs next to the greatest works of his contemporaries Melville and Dostoevsky.

From a maverick of 20th century fiction, a domestic drama set on the cusp of Brazil’s abolition of slavery. Released just two months before his death in 1908, Memorial de Ayres was Machado de Assis’s final novel. Written in the form of a diary, it follows the day-to-day happenings of a...

Bras Cubas blickt aus dem Jenseits auf sein Leben zurück. Er lebte in materieller Sorglosigkeit, berichtet jedoch in amüsanter Weise über gescheiterte Liebschaften, verpasste Gelegenheiten und Irrtümer. Hierbei hüpft er zeitlich in seinem Leben hin und her, so dass es dem Leser nicht langweilig wird.

Tras encontrar un reloj de oro desconocido sobre un mueble, Luis Negreiros se obsesiona con la idea de que su mujer, Clarinha, tiene un amante. De esta forma, se crea un ambiente de gran tensión entre ambos.