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Quincas Borba: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

• Quincas Borba: A Novel
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson
• Page: 352
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781324096702
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Quincas Borba: A Novel

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A satirical tale of a young man flush with newfound wealth who promptly gets swindled, Quincas Borba is an inspired critique of nineteenth-century Brazil. Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America’s greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly innovative narrative techniques and uncanny talent for unraveling the social and political milieu of nineteenth-century Brazil. These signature traits are on full display in Quincas Borba, a novel that sees Machado satirize a rapidly changing Rio de Janeiro. Originally published in 1891, the story begins with the death of its titular character, a mad philosopher infamous for spouting pessimistic theories of “Humanitism.” Borba leaves his fortune—including his dog, also named Quincas Borba—to Rubião, his loyal caretaker and a schoolteacher by trade. Bestowed with opulence beyond his wildest dreams, Rubião is quickly coaxed into the comforts of a rich man’s life—the only stipulation being that he continues to care for the canine Quincas Borba with the same dedication he once did the human. Adrift in the big, bad, bustling world of late-1860s Rio de Janeiro, it isn’t long before Rubião is targeted by the city’s sycophants, who can smell his naïveté from a mile away. Playfully told by an omniscient and possibly unreliable narrator, the novel is at once irreverent and ambitious, brimming with barbed wit and keen philosophical inquiry. Brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson—the duo credited with introducing a new generation of readers to Machado through their translations of Dom Casmurro, The Collected Stories, and Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas—Quincas Borba is another strikingly modern tale from a blazing progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.

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Book overview. When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he leaves to his friend Rubiao the entirety of his wealth and property, with a single stipulation .
Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis - Project Gutenberg
The story focuses on the life of Rubião, a former professor who has suddenly become wealthy after the death of his friend Quincas Borba.
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QUINCAS BORBA - Kirkus Reviews
A parodic novel by the great Brazilian writer, first published in 1891. Quincas Borba is a philosopher of sorts, the inventor of a doctrine he calls Humanitism.
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