Quincas Borba

Machado de Assis · 1891 CE · Novel · Latin American · Victorian

A provincial schoolmaster inherits a fortune from a mad philosopher on condition that he keep the man's dog, which bears the philosopher's own name, and moves to Rio carrying a doctrine called Humanitism that proves all suffering to be the winner's dinner. A married couple attach themselves to him and begin managing his money and his illusions. The dog watches everything.

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• continues ↑ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
  Machado de Assis · 1881 CE · Novel

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