At that time she was only fifteen or sixteen years old. It was precisely the lady who was to be present during my last days in 1869 and who before, long before, had played a ample part in my most intimate sensations. Virgilia ? But, then, was it the same lady who some year later ….? The very same. His political career grows but he then is out of favor and starts a pape as a member of the opposition. But he is a man that always sees his world as half empty and his relationships and life all reflect this so when he re-meets Virgilia and they see each other things still don’t go his way. This is where he starts to meet Virgilia a woman that is the love of his life they never quite get it there she marries someone else he decides to become involved in politics. He also deals with his mother’s death and ends up in Rio. His wilder years before he settles Sleeping and falling in love with a prostitute that all the boys loved at the time. He also abused the slaves his family had at the time. but he was a spoilt rich child maybe this explains why his life is never quite right. As we follow Bra Cubas life as he tells us in a quirky style of short chapters that vignettes of his life from his childhood onwards. This is a strange book as it is the memoirs of a dead man that he wrote after he died he tells us this early on in the book.

The opening lines explain the choice of style for the book Moses, who also wrote about his death,didn’t place it at the opening but at the close: a radical differecne between this book and the Pentateuch. Since common usage would call for beginning with birth, two considerations led me to adopt a different method: the first is that i am not exactly a write who is dead but a dead man who is a writer, for whom the grave was a second cradle, the second is that the writing be more distinctive and novel in that way.

The book followed the death of a friend that left him melancholic and thinking about death.įor some time I debated over whether I should start these memoirs at the beginning or at the end, that is, whether I shuld put my birth of my death in first place. I always like adding depth to the blog some older writers from around the world.So here I review the second book on the blog from the Brazilain writer Machado De Assis He managed a successful career as a Bureaucrat as well as become a successful writer first with poetry then a series of novels it was when this book came out that he became a really well known in Lit circles in Brazil.

Original title – Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas The posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis