Posthumous Memoirs of Br'as Cubas

"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Br?s Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil''s greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.By turns flippant and profound, Th...