![]() ![]() Defeated by pneumonia, the dead Cubas chooses to find a pastime and recount the many experiences of life and thoughts. ![]() ![]() These memoirs thus relate the successes and failures of Bras Cubas in the form of his posthumous autobiography. As the title suggests, the protagonist and narrator is the deceased Bras Cubas, writing from beyond the grave. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, an unbearably undiscovered and under-appreciated work of literature, was written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published in 1881. ― Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.” “Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. ![]()
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