01899cam a22003613u 4500 60847 UtSlPG 20260610134413.0 m cr n 260607r2019||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PQ Machado de Assis, 1839-1908 Mémoires Posthumes de Braz Cubas Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2019 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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 Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.) "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.) Original publication data not identified Humorous stories Rich people -- Fiction Dead -- Fiction Brazil -- Fiction Delpech, Adrien, 1867-1942 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60847 101673 101673