The double death of Quincas Water-Bray
By: Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; introduction by Rivka Galchen..
Contributors: Rabassa, Gregory
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780143106364
Subjects: FICTION / Classics; FICTION / Humorous
Work titles: Morte e a morte de Quincas Berro Dágua
Description: "Along with The Discovery of America by the Turks, two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birth. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea"--