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008			191126s2020 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019051790
020			_a9780143135036 _q(softcover)
020			_z9780525506683 _q(ebook)
038			_aArshad
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
041	1		_aeng _hpor
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPQ9697.M18 _bM513 2020
082	0	0	_a869.33 _bMAC
100	1		_aMachado de Assis, _d1839-1908, _eauthor. _991605
240	1	0	_aMemorias posthumas de Braz Cubas. _lEnglish
245	1	4	_aThe posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas / _cby Machado de Assis ; translated with an introduction and notes by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux.
264		1	_a[New York, NY] : _bPenguin Books, _c2020.
300			_axliv, 324 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas. The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsburg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated also as Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and, in 160 brief chapters, tells of his failed romances and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and utterly unforgettable, it is a novel ahead of its time that has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Borges to Joyce to Nabokov to Calvino, and that has influenced generations of writers around the world. This new English translation is the first to include extensive notes providing crucial historical and cultural context and also includes excerpts from previous versions of the novel never before published in English"-- _cProvided by publisher.
563			_aPBK
700	1		_aThomson-DeVeaux, Flora, _etranslator. _991606
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