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A delightfully modern 19th century novel

Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

October 25, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Green BINGO (diagonal): Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Violet Note: I read the version translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, published in 2020.  When you open a book and find that it is dedicated to “the first worm to gnaw the cold flesh of my corpse,” you know it isn’t going to be your run-of-the-mill novel. I might not find that so unusual (I do enjoy my share of darkly humorous authors), though, if this novel hadn’t been originally published in 1881. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brazilian authors, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, KimMiE", Machado de Assis, Spanish language literature, translation

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brazilian authors, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, KimMiE", Machado de Assis, Spanish language literature, translation ·
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