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Póstumas De Brás Cubas|The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas 2020 – A Feast of Brazilian Literary Delights Celebrating the birth centenary of CLARICE LISPECTOR (1920-1977), JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO (1920-1999) and JOSÉ MAURO DE VASCONCELOS (1920-1984) #aFeastofBrazilianLiteraryDelights VIRTUAL BRAZILIAN BILINGUAL BOOK CLUB| JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS |MEMÓRIAS PÓSTUMAS DE BRÁS CUBAS|THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS 19th NOVEMBER 2020, 18.30-21.00 2020 the year of #aFeastofBrazilianLiteraryDelights Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (1880, 1881) by JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS (1839-1908) translated as The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1951, 1952,1953, 1955 …2020) 1 Cover page of Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, first book edition, 1881, Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Nacional with a handwritten dedication text ‘A Bibliotheca Nacional offerece Machado de Assis’ reportedly in Machado de Assis's own handwriting. Page ©VIRTUAL BRAZILIAN BILINGUAL BOOK CLUB –EMBASSY OF BRAZIL IN LONDON All rights reserved - Creator & Convenor -©Nadia Kerecuk http://londres.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/book_club.xml 14-16 Cockspur Street London SW11Y 5BL @BrazilEmbassyUK 2020 – A Feast of Brazilian Literary Delights Celebrating the birth centenary of CLARICE LISPECTOR (1920-1977), JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO (1920-1999) and JOSÉ MAURO DE VASCONCELOS (1920-1984) #aFeastofBrazilianLiteraryDelights 1952 1998 2008 2020 2020 Witty, ageless, bitingly satirical and a delightful masterpiece, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is an unmitigated joy to read. Narrated, from beyond the grave, by an heir of a crafty master cooper, who succeeded in perching himself on the branch of the family tree of the Portuguese nobleman and explorer Braz Cubas (1507-1592), twice governor of the Captaincy of São Vicente and founder of the city of Santos. Our book club discussed this masterpiece in Year 2*, on 18th Feb 2016: Our members were captivated by the narrator on the journey to the ‘Undiscovered Country’, and greatly amused by the hippopotamus ride through the mythical universal skies and ancient African plains in search of the beginnings of time (and space, of course!). By the time you reach chapter seven, entitled The Delirium, the horizons of the history of humanity unravels. Do not miss references regrettably neglected or overlooked by so many: from the dawn of times you will journey the places around the Nile, ancient civilisations, and the Storks of Ilisos - name of the Athenian river, its etymology is pre-Greek and may have originated in Africa! The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is one key novel in the Machado de Assis’s fivefold chain of novels: Quincas Borba (1891), Dom Casmurro (1899), Esau and Jacob (1904) and Counsellor Ayres’ Memorial (1908). In addition, it contains significant connection with the short novel The Alienist (1881) Our book club read the five novels, the novella, and short stories! How many British and world writers have read Machado de Assis? In1980s, S.V. Pritchett wrote about translations of Machado de Assis. S. Rushdie, a great admirer and disciple, has claimed that Machado de Assis was at least one hundred years ahead of his time, and that he originated all Latin American literature. C. Fuentes stated that Machado de Assis was ‘The most brilliant star in the sky of nineteenth-century Iberian- American novels.’ Louis de Bernières, P. Roth, and many more, overtly and covertly all over the world, have delighted in reading his oeuvre. Our book club launched with the novel Quincas Borba, acclaimed by our members as a 21st century novel, in January 2015, and since then we have read numerous works in our six years: our 2 members have never ceased to be amazed! Page ©VIRTUAL BRAZILIAN BILINGUAL BOOK CLUB –EMBASSY OF BRAZIL IN LONDON All rights reserved - Creator & Convenor -©Nadia Kerecuk http://londres.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/book_club.xml 14-16 Cockspur Street London SW11Y 5BL @BrazilEmbassyUK 2020 – A Feast of Brazilian Literary Delights Celebrating the birth centenary of CLARICE LISPECTOR (1920-1977), JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO (1920-1999) and JOSÉ MAURO DE VASCONCELOS (1920-1984) #aFeastofBrazilianLiteraryDelights Since the last1998 translation of this masterpiece, two new (re)translations appeared in English this year! Proof that it is a timeless masterpiece! *https://sistemas.mre.gov.br/kitweb/datafiles/Londres/en-us/file/cul-bookclub-02- machadodeassis.pdf DETAILS OF AVAILABLE PUBLICATIONS: ENGLISH 1951 - The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas translated by William L. Grossman, São Paulo: São Paulo Editora. 1952 - Epitaph of a Small Winner* translated by William L. Grossman (1906-1980), New York Noonday Press Reprinted 1953 Epitaph of a Small Winner* translated by William L. Grossman, London W.H. Allan with various reprints and various forewords, e.g. 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN- 10: 0747599041 ISBN-13: 978-0747599043 ASIN: B0055NCU7S N.B.-This is the same translation as the 1951 he posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas, but published under a new title. 1955 Posthumous reminiscences of Braz Cubas by E. Percy Ellis translated from the 4th edition-1899, in the series ‘Coleção de traduções de grandes autores brasileiros’ (Translation of the Great Brazilian authors series) of the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture ‘Instituto Nacional do Livro (The Brazilian National Book Institute)’: Rio de Janeiro. ASIN: B0014LXGOQ 1998- The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas translated by Gregory Rabassa (1926-2016), Oxford University Press, Library of Latin America ISBN-10: 0195101707 ISBN-13: 978- 0195101706 ASIN: B0055NCU7S Free downloads: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Posthumous_Memoirs_of_Br%C3%A1s_Cub as.html?id=bzjKmQZi9kgC&redir_esc=y http://ebook.visitbrasil.com/detalhe.html?idbook=7 June 2020 The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, published by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0143135036 ISBN-10: 0143135031 ASIN: B081M5RL5S August 2020 - Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas translated by M. J. Costa and R. Patterson, Liveright/Norton ISBN-10: 1631495321 ISBN-13: 978-1631495328 ASIN: B07ZTT43PL PORTUGUESE 1880 - Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas as a feuilleton in Revista Brasileira published from 15th March to 15th December 3 Page ©VIRTUAL BRAZILIAN BILINGUAL BOOK CLUB –EMBASSY OF BRAZIL IN LONDON All rights reserved - Creator & Convenor -©Nadia Kerecuk http://londres.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/book_club.xml 14-16 Cockspur Street London SW11Y 5BL @BrazilEmbassyUK 2020 – A Feast of Brazilian Literary Delights Celebrating the birth centenary of CLARICE LISPECTOR (1920-1977), JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO (1920-1999) and JOSÉ MAURO DE VASCONCELOS (1920-1984) #aFeastofBrazilianLiteraryDelights 1881 - Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas Rio published by Typographia Nacional Numerous editions, e.g. ISBN-10: 1973391155 ISBN-13: 978-1973391159 ASIN: B00G03IGWU Free downloads: Original 1881 edition: https://digital.bbm.usp.br/handle/bbm/4826 http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/bv000215.pdf SHORT HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND TRANSLATION Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is one of the most notable novels in world literature of all times. It emerged from the well spring of extraordinary imagination and ideas of a man of genius, a literary titan, and a prodigious author. From the original feuilleton in Revista Brasileira published from15th March to15th December 1880, containing a quotation from As You Like It, and its subsequent edition in book format in 1881, reprinted as third and fourth editions. It has never been out of print over one hundred and forty years. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas was the first novel by Machado de Assis translated in foreign languages: French in 1911, Italian in 1919, Spanish in 1940 and German in 1950. Regrettably, the English language translation took a rather long time to appear with the first appearing in 1951. In 2020, the reader in English now has a record number of translations Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, and a record number of reprints. Numerous world writers have been borrowing from Machado de Assis’s oeuvre, and each generation who reads him rediscovers him – an incontestable proof that Machado de Assis has not been forgotten at all. Our book club members loved it when we discussed it in February 2016 and delighted in finding the intricate and cerebral links between Quincas Borba, with which our book club was launched in 2015, and Dom Casmurro, which features the reference to the worn gnawing …which we also read in 2015. Dear Brazilian Bilingual Book Club members, this repeat and updated edition, let us embark on a (re)discovery of this marvellous Brazilian novel and author! 4 Page ©VIRTUAL BRAZILIAN BILINGUAL BOOK CLUB –EMBASSY OF BRAZIL IN LONDON All rights reserved - Creator & Convenor -©Nadia Kerecuk http://londres.itamaraty.gov.br/en-us/book_club.xml 14-16 Cockspur Street London SW11Y 5BL @BrazilEmbassyUK 2020 – A Feast of Brazilian Literary Delights Celebrating the birth centenary of CLARICE LISPECTOR (1920-1977), JOÃO CABRAL DE MELO NETO (1920-1999) and JOSÉ MAURO DE VASCONCELOS (1920-1984) #aFeastofBrazilianLiteraryDelights In my view, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is best described as a nimble satire (my nod to Shakespeare’s As you like it !) featuring an intellectually cerebral and humorous narrative, with a self-deprecating narrator displaying erudition with biting satirical wit, and a seemingly comical discussion of philosophical themes. It is an endless source of amusement. It certainly does not fit the classification straight jacket of literary movements of the nineteenth century, which academics like to apply - artificial constructs that such classifications are, thus (re)reading it, certainly provides ample refutation of acts of pigeonholing of this novel as a ‘realist’ or any other ‘-ism’. What singles The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas out and makes it a unique phenomenal fictional narrative is that the narrator is dead. This enables the narrator to speak freely and poke fun at matters pertaining to the essence of humanity, the human virtues and vices, human passions, and histories which humanity has created through times and spaces. A relatively short tome but it contains a history of humanity narrated by a deceased man who has a fabulous sense of humour.
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