Book #62 of 2022: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis Charmingly strange and surprisingly modern for a novel first published in 1881 Brazil, this story details the life of a fictional dead man from his own perspective, written “with the pen of mirth and the ink of melancholy” as he lies …
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