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Reason Read; Reading 1001, TBR takedown, TIOLI #10
This is a 19th century work by Machado de Assis, a Brazilian author. It is set in Rio. It is a Brazilian Classic. Bras Cubas is writing this from the grave, thus it is the posthumous memoir.
Brás Cubas dedicates his book: "To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs". The characters include Bras Cuba who is a man who is mediocre and fails to accomplish anything. He dies of ...more
This is a 19th century work by Machado de Assis, a Brazilian author. It is set in Rio. It is a Brazilian Classic. Bras Cubas is writing this from the grave, thus it is the posthumous memoir.
Brás Cubas dedicates his book: "To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs". The characters include Bras Cuba who is a man who is mediocre and fails to accomplish anything. He dies of ...more
So Bras Cubas decided to write his memoirs after he died. Certainly an interesting premise. I found this book to be really amusing, particularly how he describes his childhood and the religion that he creates: Humanitism: "the principle of the things, the same man equally distributed in all men".
I liked the short quirky chapters (one near the end just had a title).
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I liked the short quirky chapters (one near the end just had a title).
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I loved this. It reminded me a bit of Jane Austen in the skewering of the upper class manners and more, but a bit darker because the classes were slave owners. But half the point of this book, I felt, was the complete disregard the MC had for anything outside his notice, and the servants were certainly outside his notice. So vain, so egotistical, so shallow, so uncompassionate, so unempathetic, so DEAD, and astoundingly funny in the way complete buffoons are.
19th-century Brazilian Braz Cubas presents the story of his life in rambling and often hilarious short chapters. He even knows the ending, because he's dead.
Inspired by Don Quixote and reminiscent of Tristram Shandy, but shorter than both, this turns a frustrated life and an unhappy love affair into the kind of comedy that makes us see the absurdity inherent in society and the human condition. ...more
Inspired by Don Quixote and reminiscent of Tristram Shandy, but shorter than both, this turns a frustrated life and an unhappy love affair into the kind of comedy that makes us see the absurdity inherent in society and the human condition. ...more
Feb 22, 2018
Diane
rated it
it was amazing
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Jan 25, 2016
Kyle Mahoney
marked it as to-read
May 22, 2016
Janet
marked it as to-read
Dec 10, 2017
Daria Zeoli
marked it as to-read
Dec 28, 2017
Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)
marked it as 1001-tbr
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Nov 25, 2018
Kai Coates
marked it as to-read
Jul 08, 2022
Pippin
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Apr 07, 2023
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