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008    191126s2020    nyu    e b    000 1 eng   
010      2019051790 
020    9780143135036|q(paperback) 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dDLC|dGCmBT|dUtOrBLW 
041 1  eng|hpor 
042    pcc 
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092    |fF|aMACHADO 
100 1  Machado de Assis,|d1839-1908,|eauthor. 
245 14 The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas /|cby Machado de 
       Assis ; translated with an introduction and notes by Flora
       Thomson-DeVeaux. 
264  1 [New York, NY] :|bPenguin Books,|c[2020] 
300    xliv, 324 pages ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324). 
520    "A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable
       masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the 
       Americas. The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de
       Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also
       a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the 
       likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsburg, John 
       Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 
       novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated 
       also as Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a 
       decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his 
       memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse
       and, in 160 brief chapters, tells of his failed romances 
       and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained
       philosophies, and complains with gusto from the depths of 
       his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and utterly
       unforgettable, it is a novel ahead of its time that has 
       been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to 
       Sterne to Borges to Joyce to Nabokov to Calvino, and that 
       has influenced generations of writers around the world. 
       This new English translation is the first to include 
       extensive notes providing crucial historical and cultural 
       context and also includes excerpts from previous versions 
       of the novel never before published in English"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Interpersonal relations|vFiction. 
651  0 Brazil|xSocial life and customs|y19th century|vFiction. 
700 1  Thomson-DeVeaux, Flora,|etranslator. 
730 0  Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas.|lEnglish.