The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis

Trade paperback format.  Foreword by Dave Eggers, introduction by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux.Translated and with notes by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. “One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written.” –Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasThe 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 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 tells of his failed romances and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and compla