Machado de Assis,  1839-1908 <br/><br/>
Mémoires Posthumes de Braz Cubas 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Posthumous_Memoirs_of_Br%C3%A1s_Cubas Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_posthumes_de_Br%C3%A1s_Cubas  Release date is 2019-12-04 
<br/><br/>Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images<br/>generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale<br/>de France.)  Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images<br/>generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale<br/>de France.) 
<br/><br/> "Mémoires Posthumes de Braz Cubas" by Machado de Assis is a novel published in 1880. A dead man narrates his own life story from beyond the grave, beginning with his funeral and working backward through his privileged existence in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Through caustic wit and philosophical satire, he recounts romantic failures, adulterous affairs, political ambitions, and his obsessive quest for glory—all told with ironic detachment that breaks from traditional narrative conventions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Humorous stories Rich people -- Fiction Dead -- Fiction Brazil -- Fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ