The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Posthumous_Memoirs_of_Bras_Cubas
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:novel
gptkbp:adaptedInto gptkb:television_series
gptkb:theatre
gptkbp:author gptkb:Machado_de_Assis
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Brazil
gptkbp:firstPublished gptkb:Revista_Brasileira
1880
1881
gptkbp:genre fiction
satire
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
gptkbp:influenced Brazilian literature
gptkbp:language Portuguese
gptkbp:literaryPeriod gptkb:Realism
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Brás_Cubas
gptkbp:narrativeStyle first-person
gptkbp:narrator gptkb:Brás_Cubas
gptkbp:notableFor dark humor
innovative narrative structure
use of metafiction
gptkbp:originalTitle gptkb:Memórias_Póstumas_de_Brás_Cubas
gptkbp:publicationYear 1881
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Tipografia_Nacional
gptkbp:recognizedBy one of the greatest works of Brazilian literature
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Rio_de_Janeiro
gptkbp:theme death
existentialism
social criticism
Brazilian society
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Margaret_Jull_Costa
gptkb:Gregory_Rabassa
gptkb:Flora_Thomson-DeVeaux
English
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