The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Library of Latin America)
Fans of Latin American literature will be thrilled by Oxford University Press's  new translations of works by 19th-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de  Assis. His novels are both heartbreaking and comic; his limning of a colonial Brazil in  flux is both perceptive and remarkably modern.The Posthumous Memoirs of  Brás Cubasis written as an autobiography, a chronicle of the erotic  misadventures of its narrator, Brás Cubas--who happens to be dead. In pursuit of  love and progeny, Cubas rejects the women who want him and aspires to the ones who  reject him. In the end, he dies unloved and without heirs, yet he somehow manages to  turn this bitter pill into a victory of sorts. What makesMemoirsstand up 100  years after the book was written is Machado's biting humor, brilliant prose, and profound  understanding of all the vagaries of human behavior.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.