Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Posthumous_Memoirs_of_Br%C3%A1s_Cubas Wikipedia page about this book: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mem%C3%B3rias_P%C3%B3stumas_de_Br%C3%A1s_Cubas

Release date is 2017-06-02

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"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, failed loves, adulterous affair with Virgília, and futile pursuits of glory. This groundbreaking work launched Brazilian Realism while satirizing slavery, social class, and nineteenth-century society with unprecedented irony and pessimism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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