Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Description
New York Times, "Times Critics Top Books of 2020":
"The most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel I read this year was originally published in 1881. Jull Costa and Patterson offer a peerless translation of this comic masterpiece." --Parul Sehgal, New York TimesMachado de Assis's classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for twenty-first-century readers.
Product Details
Price
$27.95
$25.71
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
June 16, 2020
Pages
256
Dimensions
6.1 X 9.2 X 1.1 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781631495328
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About the Author
Margaret Jull Costa has been translating Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American fiction for over twenty years. She won the translator's portion of the 1997 IMPAC Award for Javier Marías' Heart So White and the 2006 Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of the first volume of his trilogy Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear.
Machado De Assis (1839-1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the groundbreaking author of such works as Quincas Borba, Dom Casmurro, as well as The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis.
Award-winning translator Robin Patterson lives in England.
