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Machado de Assis wrote a novel in the 19th century that reads as if it were written in the 20th century. Take that Dickens and Hugo! Instead of writing a chronological narrative that provides a commentary of a post-Napoleonic era like his contemporaries did, de Assis takes a more subtle but very modern approach to his storytelling. He jokes with the reader. He comments on his own writing within the story, and he tells the story from different narrative perspectives. This author was way before hi
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So Bras Cubas decided to write his memoirs after he died. Certainly an interesting premise. I found this book to be really amusing, particularly how he describes his childhood and the religion that he creates: Humanitism: "the principle of the things, the same man equally distributed in all men".
I liked the short quirky chapters (one near the end just had a title).
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I liked the short quirky chapters (one near the end just had a title).
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Aug 28, 2017
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It has diagrams!
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