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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Second Critical Edition
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ISBN13: 9798188412654
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas has long been recognized as one of the most original novels ever written, yet its philosophical depth and literary sophistication remain insufficiently appreciated outside the Portuguese-speaking world. This Second Critical Edition offers not merely a revised English translation, but a comprehensive scholarly edition designed for readers who seek to engage Machado de Assis at the highest academic level.
The translation by Gabriela Weisman has been extensively revised for greater textual precision, stylistic consistency, and fidelity to Machado's unique narrative voice. The result preserves both the elegance and irony of the original while remaining accessible to contemporary English-language readers.
What distinguishes this edition is its extensive critical apparatus. Edited by Alexandre H. Reis and Gabriela Weisman, it includes a substantial critical introduction, hundreds of explanatory annotations, and historical, philosophical, literary, and linguistic commentaries that illuminate the extraordinary complexity of Machado's masterpiece.
Rather than presenting Brás Cubas merely as a Brazilian classic, this edition situates the novel within the broader history of Western literature and philosophy. The introduction examines Machado's dialogue with Cervantes, Sterne, Montaigne, Pascal, Schopenhauer, and the Menippean tradition, while also exploring the intellectual world of nineteenth-century Brazil, slavery, irony, memory, narrative innovation, and the philosophical implications of writing from beyond the grave.
Prepared with particular attention to the needs of scholars, graduate students, instructors, and serious readers, this volume transforms one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century into a fully contextualized academic resource.
This volume is an invitation to read Machado de Assis as one of the central novelists of world literature. His work does not merely anticipate literary modernism; it fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the novel, the unreliable narrator, and the philosophical possibilities of fiction.
This edition aims to provide the most rigorous English-language resource currently available for the study of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, work whose brilliance continues to challenge and reward each new generation of readers.
What distinguishes this edition is its extensive critical apparatus. Edited by Alexandre H. Reis and Gabriela Weisman, it includes a substantial critical introduction, hundreds of explanatory annotations, and historical, philosophical, literary, and linguistic commentaries that illuminate the extraordinary complexity of Machado's masterpiece.
Rather than presenting Brás Cubas merely as a Brazilian classic, this edition situates the novel within the broader history of Western literature and philosophy. The introduction examines Machado's dialogue with Cervantes, Sterne, Montaigne, Pascal, Schopenhauer, and the Menippean tradition, while also exploring the intellectual world of nineteenth-century Brazil, slavery, irony, memory, narrative innovation, and the philosophical implications of writing from beyond the grave.
Prepared with particular attention to the needs of scholars, graduate students, instructors, and serious readers, this volume transforms one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century into a fully contextualized academic resource.
This volume is an invitation to read Machado de Assis as one of the central novelists of world literature. His work does not merely anticipate literary modernism; it fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the novel, the unreliable narrator, and the philosophical possibilities of fiction.
This edition aims to provide the most rigorous English-language resource currently available for the study of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, work whose brilliance continues to challenge and reward each new generation of readers.
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