![]() ![]() Voyage Around My Room, both of which Bras Cubas (not Machado now)Īcknowledges in his opening "To the Reader." I begin the lineĪt Aristophanes, including the Dostoyevsky of Notes From Underground, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Xavier de Maistre's To a long line of brilliantly odd and (relatively) outrageous works like Others," he remarked in the prologue to the third edition) belongs Was writing its aesthetic opposite, The Portrait of a Lady, Machado deĪssis's novel ("it was a novel for some and wasn't for Written at the same moment of literary history when Henry James The Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa (who brought One Hundred Years of Memoirs of Bras Cubas, has just been reissued in a new translation from ![]() So it seems a propitious moment for theįictional memoir, one of the best models for which, The Posthumous While fiction has put on the hair shirt of faux-democratic humility, andĭeals mainly with ordinariness - quiet desperation, simple dignity, ![]() Memoirs meet this demand perforce, almost contractually, One reason for such an assertion is that extraordinary lives are Some people in publishing have begun to speak, openly and withĮnthusiasm, of the eclipse of fiction and the transcendence of memoir. APA style: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas." Retrieved from ![]() MLA style: "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas." The Free Library. ![]()
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