[BRAZIL] Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

NY. Liveright (W.W. Norton) 2020 reprint. 1st Hardcover Edition. 1st Printing. This book and dust jacket are LIKE NEW. 239pp. 

The novel is narrated by the dead protagonist Brás Cubas, who tells his own life story from beyond the grave, noting his mistakes and failed romances.. American literary critic Harold Bloom's considers Machado de Assis to be the greatest black writer in Western literature; although, in Brazil, Machado is perceived as a Pardo.