The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
A dead man announces that he is writing from the far side of the grave, with nothing left to lose by candor, and works back through inherited money, a long affair with a married woman and a friend's system for explaining away suffering. He dedicates the book to the first worm that gnawed him, addresses the reader constantly, and skips whatever bores him. Imperial Brazil's comedy of a wasted and well-upholstered existence.
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- modeled on ↑ The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- ↓ Quincas Borba
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