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Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816617821
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Agua Viva written by Clarice Lispector and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.
Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880239
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sá Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.
Author : Machado de Assis
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
ISBN 13 : 6558942607
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (589 download)
Download or read book The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas written by Machado de Assis and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 – 1908) was a writer considered by many critics, scholars, writers, and readers to be the greatest name in Brazilian literature. Machado de Assis left a very extensive body of work, the result of half a century of literary labor, which includes plays, poetry, prologues, critiques, speeches, more than two hundred short stories, and several novels. "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas" (1881) is a first-person narrative considered Machado de Assis's masterpiece. The novel, extremely daring for its time, is framed as the memoirs of a character, Brás Cubas, who writes after his death. The dedication at the beginning of the book already anticipates the humor and fine irony present throughout: "To the worm that first gnawed at the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these posthumous memoirs."
Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163149533X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Now 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, Chicago Review of Books) 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.”—Economist
Author : Hilda Hilst
Publisher : Steerforth Press
ISBN 13 : 1805331361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Obscene Madame D written by Hilda Hilst and published by Steerforth Press. This book was released on 2025-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil’s most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter An electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature’s most significant and controversial writers, Hilda Hilst takes us into the disorder and beauty of a mind restlessly testing its own limits. Every month I ingested the body of God, not in the way one swallows green peas or agrostis, or swallows swords, I ingested the body of God the way people do when they know they are swallowing the More, the All, the Incommensurable, for not believing in finitude I would lose myself in absolute infinity… The Obscene Madame D tells the story of Hillé, a sixty-year-old woman who has decided to abandon conventional life and spend the rest of her days in contemplation in a recess under the stairs. There, she is haunted by the perplexity of her recently deceased lover, Ehud, who cannot understand her rejection of common sense, sex and a simple life in favour of metaphysical speculations that he considers delusional and vain. In a stream-of-consciousness monologue that’s part James Joyce, part Clarice Lispector, and part de Sade, Hillé speaks of her search for spiritual fulfilment from a space of dereliction, as she searches for answers to great questions of life, death and the relationship between body and soul.
Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0871404974
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963 and still lacks proper recognition today. Drawn to the master’s psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro, a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters, acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have now combined Machado’s seven short-story collections into one volume, featuring seventy-six stories, a dozen appearing in English for the first time. Born in the outskirts of Rio, Machado displayed a precocious interest in books and languages and, despite his impoverished background, miraculously became a well-known intellectual figure in Brazil’s capital by his early twenties. His daring narrative techniques and coolly ironic voice resemble those of Thomas Hardy and Henry James, but more than either of these writers, Machado engages in an open playfulness with his reader—as when his narrator toys with readers’ expectations of what makes a female heroine in “Miss Dollar,” or questions the sincerity of a slave’s concern for his dying master in “The Tale of the Cabriolet.” Predominantly set in the late nineteenth-century aspiring world of Rio de Janeiro—a city in the midst of an intense transformation from colonial backwater to imperial metropolis—the postcolonial realism of Machado’s stories anticipates a dominant theme of twentieth-century literature. Readers witness the bourgeoisie of Rio both at play, and, occasionally, attempting to be serious, as depicted by the chief character of “The Alienist,” who makes naively grandiose claims for his Brazilian hometown at the expense of the cultural capitals of Europe. Signifiers of new wealth and social status abound through the landmarks that populate Machado’s stories, enlivening a world in the throes of transformation: from the elegant gardens of Passeio Público and the vibrant Rua do Ouvidor—the long, narrow street of fashionable shops, theaters and cafés, “the Via Dolorosa of long-suffering husbands”—to the port areas of Saúde and Gamboa, and the former Valongo slave market. One of the greatest masters of the twentieth century, Machado reveals himself to be an obsessive collector of other people’s lives, who writes: “There are no mysteries for an author who can scrutinize every nook and cranny of the human heart.” Now, The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis brings together, for the first time in English, all of the stories contained in the seven collections published in his lifetime, from 1870 to 1906. A landmark literary event, this majestic translation reintroduces a literary giant who must finally be integrated into the world literary canon.
Author : Marcus Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949199031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Black Butterfly written by Marcus Wood and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. Assis was Brazil's most experimental novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist politics, popularly known as "the poet of the slaves"; and da Cunha is known for the masterpiece Os Sertões (The Backlands), a work of genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention.
Author : Joaquim M. Machado de Assis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520322509
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Helena written by Joaquim M. Machado de Assis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983269134
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (691 download)
Download or read book The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 -1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil, and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America," surpassing even Borges. Harold Bloom says that Machado is "the supreme black literary artist to date." And Allen Ginsburg calls him "another Kafka". And The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is his masterpiece, a dazzling, tragic and profound novel that belongs next to the greatest works of his contemporaries Melville and Dostoevsky. Lexicos is proud to present Machado's supreme achievement in this gorgeous new translation by Neil McArthur. It has been meticulously edited and formatted for Kindle, with an active table of contents.
Author : Helen Caldwell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Braziliam Othello of Machado de Assis written by Helen Caldwell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Machado de Assis
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 6561332385
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas written by Machado de Assis and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas," by Machado de Assis, is a novel narrated by the deceased Brás Cubas, who revisits his life, loves, and failures with irony and sarcasm. Critiquing 19th-century society, the work challenges narrative conventions and explores human vanity and hypocrisy with humor and depth.
Author : Machado de Assis
Publisher : Editora Itatiaia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas written by Machado de Assis and published by Editora Itatiaia. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irony, humor, and sarcasm, striking characteristics of Machado's writing, are present in this work, considered one of the most Influential of Literary Realism in the world. Using complex and sophisticated language, with wordplay that challenges the reader, Machado de Assis tells the story of Bras Cubas, a rich and idle man, without great ambitions in life, who experiences a series of romantic and professional adventures. However, he never manages to find a meaning for his existence. In this novel full of philosophical ramblings, one of the greatest writers of the 19th century brings to light important questions about finitude and life after death.
Author : Xavier de Maistre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre written by Xavier de Maistre and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Publisher : Tagus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Author as Plagiarist written by João Cezar de Castro Rocha and published by Tagus Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library
Author : MAX EDITORIAL
Publisher : Max Editorial
ISBN 13 : 1779713975
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas- Unveiling Machado de Assis written by MAX EDITORIAL and published by Max Editorial. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" is a masterpiece of Brazilian literature, written by Machado de Assis in 1881. The novel, narrated by a deceased, is known for its ironic tone and pessimism. Brás Cubas, the protagonist, narrates his memories and reflections after death, exploring themes such as the futility of life, the hypocrisy of society and the inevitability of death. This ebook aims to counter the ideas presented by Machado de Assis, offering a more optimistic and humanistic vision of life and human relationships. The choice of a deceased narrator is, in itself, a literary innovation that allows Machado de Assis to explore the human condition from a unique perspective. Freed from social conventions and worldly concerns, Brás Cubas recounts his life with ironic detachment, exposing the weaknesses and contradictions of the living. His critical look at 19th century society is acidic and revealing, denouncing the moral failures and hypocrisies of the individuals who make up the social fabric. In this context, the futility of life emerges as a central theme. Brás Cubas, when revisiting his experiences, often concludes that his efforts and ambitions were in vain. The incessant search for pleasure, power and recognition is portrayed as useless and ephemeral. This pessimistic view reflects the narrator's disbelief in the human capacity to find lasting meaning or true happiness amid the vicissitudes of existence. Furthermore, society's hypocrisy is forcefully exposed. Brás Cubas describes an elite concerned with appearances, where publicly proclaimed virtues are often contradicted by selfish and self-serving actions. Morality is often a facade, and people's true motivation is revealed to be self-benefit. This social criticism is a trademark of Machado de Assis's work, which, with his wit, challenges readers to question values and behaviors accepted without reflection. The inevitability of death, finally, is a theme that permeates the entire novel. The death of Brás Cubas is the starting point for the narrative, and his condition as deceased-narrator underlines the certainty that all human efforts end in the same inevitable conclusion. Death levels all social distinctions and makes all worldly achievements irrelevant. This recognition of the transience of life gives the novel a melancholic and philosophical tone, leading the reader to reflect on their own mortality. However, this ebook proposes a different reading. Although "Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas" presents a discouraging view of life and human nature, we believe that it is possible to find a more optimistic and humanistic perspective on human experiences and relationships. Life, with all its imperfections and challenges, is also filled with moments of beauty, kindness and meaning. Human relationships, even marked by failures, can be sources of support, love and mutual growth. Through this work, we seek to explore how resilience, empathy and the search for a purpose can counter Brás Cubas' pessimism. We believe that, despite adversity, life offers opportunities for personal development and the construction of a more just and compassionate society. We invite the reader to reflect on these possibilities and discover a more positive and hopeful approach to the human condition. Welcome to this journey of rediscovery and reinterpretation of the "Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas". May this reading inspire new thoughts and feelings, promoting a more balanced and optimistic view of life and human relationships.
Author : Terry Gilliam
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782111077
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Gilliamesque written by Terry Gilliam and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession. . . Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls his extraordinary life so far. Featuring a cast of amazing supporting characters, including George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger and all of the fellow Pythons, Gilliamesque is a rollercoaster ride through late twentieth century popular culture. Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs and commentary.
Author : Myung Mi Kim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520231317
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Commons written by Myung Mi Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems in Commons are at once global and intensely personal and emotional. An immensely talented poet, Myung Mi Kim loves language - its internal rhymes, alliterations, and diverse rhythms. Caught off guard by the beauty and precision of Kim's language and the exquisite images she so deftly conjures, we are drawn unwittingly into a web of fragmentary memories that subvert what we think we know about the violent history that haunts her and never ceases to demand recognition."--Elaine Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context, and co-editor of Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
