The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

Memórias de Brás Cubas Póstumas ( The Memoirs of Bras Cubas subsequent Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas or ) is a novel which was first published in 1880 in the journal Revista Brasileira by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

He rang in Brazil of the late nineteenth century, the beginning of a new era - that of realism. The narrative situation in the factory makes a radical break with the literary traditions of their era. Machado de Assis surprised his readers by making the deceased Brás Cubas to the narrator his life story. Thus, this report literally out of his grave out about the personal successes and rainfall, about romantic conquests and disappointments that he made during his lifetime. Pole mixer manner and exemplary for a certain irony, and some morbid humor that pervades the novel, Brás Cubas dedicates the book, or his remarks, beginning "To the worm who first the cold flesh of my corpse annagt [ ... ] ", this, the quote from the original Portuguese: " Ao avo que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico com saudosa lembrança estas Memórias Póstumas. "

With the de Brás Cubas Memórias Póstumas Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is not only the initiator of realism, but also the harbinger of magic realism.

Translations

In German there are two translations. Appeared in 1950 in Zurich in Manesseplatz publishing memoirs of Bras Cubas The retrospective of Wolfgang Kayser and Erhard Engler 1967 initially at Rütten & Loening in Berlin in 1979 and then Posthumous by Suhrkamp in Frankfurt am Main Memories of Brás Cubas. While the 1967 edition on the cover of the title Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas leads, he is on the front page: Brás Cubas. Supplements to a misguided life.