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03008aam a2200361 i 4500 001 B5D882B2D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 003 SILO 005 20200806010102 008 191212s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019056120 020 $a 1631495321 020 $a 9781631495328 035 $a (OCoLC)1120095208 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SO$ $d YDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h por 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-bl--- 050 00 $a PQ9697 M18 M513 2020 100 1 $a Machado de Assis, $d 1839-1908 $e author. 240 10 $a MemoÌrias poÌstumas de BraÌs Cubas. $l English 245 10 $a Posthumous memoirs of BraÌs Cubas : $b a novel / $c Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., $c [2020] 300 $a xii, 239 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "Acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson offer this new rendition of Machado de Assis' classic novel. When the Collected Stories of Machado de Assis was published in 2018, it was hailed as a "literary event" by the LARB and as "landmark... heroically translated" by Benjamin Moser of The New Yorker. Now the "accomplished duo," (Sam Sacks, WSJ) returns with a fresh translation of Machado's definitive work, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. First published in 1881, it marks a pivotal moment in the development of Machado's career as a writer, as his characteristic flights into the surreal and the absurd became his literary staples. The novel begins with BraÌs Cubas recounting his own death-so, we quickly learn that these are not posthumous memoirs in the convention sense, but memoirs written, as it were, from the grave. It continues as absurdly as it begins, toggling effortlessly between literary, philosophical, historical, and sometimes wholly nonsensical digressions. He returns to his birth in 1805, and describes a childhood spent tormenting household slaves, succeeding and failing in love, finding friendship, obsessing over frivolities-a life of tedium and yet one that speaks to universal desires and aspirations. At the end of his life, he is proud of one thing: that he had no children to pass on his miserable legacy. Throughout, Bras Cubas' life is bolstered by the playfulness and black humor of Machado's prose, resulting in a work of uproarious mockery but also of great sympathy and melancholy-a tonal mix for which Machado is known and widely admired"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Brazil $x Social life and customs $y 19th century $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Costa, Margaret Jull, $e translator. 700 1 $a Patterson, Robin, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010021041.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804011237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B5D882B2D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search