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A glittering masterwork and an unmitigated joy to read . . . It is wholly original and unlike anything other than the many books that came after it and seem to have knowingly or not borrowed from it. . . . This translation is a glorious gift to the world, because it sparkles, because it sings, because it's very funny and manages to capture Machado's inimitable tone, at once mordant and wistful, self-lacerating and romantic -- Dave Eggers
A writer a hundred years ahead of his time . . . If Borges is the writer who made García Márquez possible, then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado de Assis is the writer who made Borges possible -- Salman Rushdie
One of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery -- Susan Sontag
Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881? . . . Machado's book represents the moment when the novel learned to dance. . . . Flora Thomson-DeVeaux's edition is a gift to scholars . . . [Brás Cubas is] superb company * The New York Times *

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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    A Paperback by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dave Eggers, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux

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      Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
      Publication Date: 8/26/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780143135036, 978-0143135036
      ISBN10: 0143135031
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      A glittering masterwork and an unmitigated joy to read . . . It is wholly original and unlike anything other than the many books that came after it and seem to have knowingly or not borrowed from it. . . . This translation is a glorious gift to the world, because it sparkles, because it sings, because it's very funny and manages to capture Machado's inimitable tone, at once mordant and wistful, self-lacerating and romantic -- Dave Eggers
      A writer a hundred years ahead of his time . . . If Borges is the writer who made García Márquez possible, then it is no exaggeration to say that Machado de Assis is the writer who made Borges possible -- Salman Rushdie
      One of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery -- Susan Sontag
      Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881? . . . Machado's book represents the moment when the novel learned to dance. . . . Flora Thomson-DeVeaux's edition is a gift to scholars . . . [Brás Cubas is] superb company * The New York Times *

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