The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras 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.

Written by Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, it has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly unlike anything written before or after it.

Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa, this volume brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.