{"product_id":"9781324090502","title":"The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?\"-Parul Sehgal, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis's highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work. Narrating from beyond the grave, Brás Cubas-an enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable antihero-describes his childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs, and his final days obsessing over nonsensical poultices. \"Rejuvenated\" (Pradeep Niroula, \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e) by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's fresh new translation, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is a work of acerbic mockery and deep pathos that offers a bird's-eye view of how Machado de Assis launched the canon of modernist fiction.\"Sprinkled with epigrams, dreams, gags and asides, the story teases, dances and delights.\"-\u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370807332925,"sku":"9781324090502","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781324090502_p0.jpg?v=1771568297","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781324090502","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}