{"product_id":"the-posthumous-memoirs-of-br-s-cubas-9780143135036","title":"The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written.\" --Dave Eggers, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 Ginsberg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Posthumous Memoirs of Br s Cubas\u003c\/i\u003e (translated also as \u003ci\u003eEpitaph of a Small Winner\u003c\/i\u003e), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and 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 ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Joyce to Nabokov to Borges to Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new English translation is the first to include extensive notes providing crucial historical and cultural context. Unlike other editions, it also preserves Machado's original chapter breaks--each of the novel's 160 short chapters begins on a new page--and includes excerpts from previous versions of the novel never before published in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143135036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37861665538229,"sku":"9780143135036","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d540c696-c204-4e8c-bad6-b8b4b8fac19f.jpg?v=1607497860","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-posthumous-memoirs-of-br-s-cubas-9780143135036","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}