For the Brazilians around this comment section, recently I found out that a Korean friend of my had to read Meu Pé de Laranja Lima in school... In Korea. And she loves it. Thought it was quite curious.
@@CerealForMe I don't know what age, but... School age XD I believe middle school. It was pretty interesting, since she didn't even know it was from Brazil
@@talic-os5899 I asked because I figured you would have to be older to like it. It was my least favorite book growing up, I HATED IT, didn't even finish it XD
IU, a South Korean singer made a song about that book called "Zezé", it's one of her favorite books. She suffered a lot of backlash because people considered the lyrics inappropriate...
I saw a meme, and it had said it like this: English: I will die for honor French: I will die for love American: I will die for freedom Russian: I will die lol
Para o mundo, latino-americanos são todos iguais. É a mesma forma que brasileiros agem ao olhar para o continente africano e vem na mente um negro tribal com roupas coloridas etc, ou pensa no oriente médio e vem na mente um "típico" homem de roupas longas cobrindo a maior parte do corpo.
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"Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas" would be the non-adapted translation of the title - in case anyone wanna know.
@@drogadepc it's the same thing. "Memoirs" comes from French that comes from Latin "memoria". "Memories" comes from Latin directly and might be some centuries older. Sure.. You can use 'memoirs' to reefer to a specific kind of memory (autobiography, for example) as the use dictates. It might even be better as the title becomes 'chic'. But, definitely: memories is not wrong, Sir! Also, the sounding of "memoirs" together with "posthumous" and the connective "of" becomes... Irky.
título inclusive melhor. Machado odiaria esses títulos moderninhos e bestas só para chamar leitor-público. esse do vídeo, por exemplo, dá até uma vergonha alheia. parece coach escolhendo título.
Oh man, my first impulse is to say "learn Portuguese and read Machado" because his play on words and use of the Portuguese language is also part of his genius, which is kinda lost on translations. Sadly, learning Portuguese is easier said than done.
Absolutely. That's one of the things I miss the most in English literature. The way our authors play with words, the richness of vocabulary and all the poetry entrenched. Anyway, even if he actually started learning Portuguese, I don't think he would be able to read Machado de Assis in a few years. As said above, Machado's Portuguese is hard. Even to native speakers.
I agree Portuguese is a hard language to learn and that Machado is not a easy reading for new Portuguese speakers, but our language is so rich and beautiful, I don’t think he’s losing time learning. And all languages have words people don’t use anymore, Shakespeare’s english is not the english we speak today, for example. There are adaptations and synonyms we use to make it understandable in any time period.
Todo professor de literatura: Machado de Assis é um dos maiores escritores do mundo Brasileiros: fodase RU-vidr gringo qualquer: nossa Machado realmente é bom Brasileiros: QUE ORGULHO MDS QUE HONRA
Acho que isso vai muito de como é apresentado. Eu nunca tive interesse em ler pq sempre me foi apresentado como comédia e que fala sobre o dia a dia, que eu acho chato pra caralho. E eu falo isso pq eu só me lembro de 2 professores que mantenho contato até hoje. Em fim, o que eu tô querendo dizer é que como esse livro nunca me foi apresentado dessa forma eu nunca tive interesse.
Convenhamos, literatura é um tópico extremamente entediante. E eu sou um cara que gosta de ler. Imagina pra quem não teve estímulos na infância e nunca encontrou um livro que desse realmente prazer. Os textos do português erudito são densos, complexos e até presunçosos, na medida em que eram escritos muito mais como uma obra de arte, com o intuito de expor a genialidade de seus autores (e estimular o intelecto de seus pares), do que realmente transmitir uma mensagem universal. Embora fossem obras feitas para um nicho da elite, viraram ícones porque extrapolam o padrão de pensamento pasteurizado que a sociedade utiliza no cotidiano. Por isso é importante estudar e compreender. Mas daí a dizer "nossa que delícia ler Machado de Assis", é complicado. Ainda mais diante de opções audiovisuais modernas que trazem tudo mastigado, extremamente palatáveis e digeríveis sem esforço.
Me desculpem, mas acho que estão procurando cabelo em ovos. O brasileiro médio não lê e portanto diz "foda-se" para qualquer literatura, não especificamente a nacional. Entre os leitores brasileiros o Machado de Assis tem sim um imenso prestígio. E ainda temos outros grandes e reconhecidos autores! Em suma: o brasileiro médio dirá "foda-se" ao Machado, ao Tolstoi e ao Hemingway igualmente e sem preconceitos de fronteiras.
Gabriel :D Entendo a crítica mas acho que dentro desse "Brasileiros" existem dois grupos: os "posers" que nunca leram Machado porque achavam que era chato, e os que realmente leram e gostam e ficam felizes por ver ele sendo difundido. De qualquer forma, acho que o primeiro grupo pode acabar lendo depois de ver a popularidade do autor.
I always enjoy seeing non-brazilians analysing Brazilian culture, you bring a different perspective and help us to enrich our own visions of Machado. Congrats on the incredible video, you have a new subscriber :)
"To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs." One of the best intros to a book ever.
The person who said it was wrong Shakespeare was capable even of creating a lot of words that today people use as normal Not denying his talent, but Machado was far less influential in Brazil/Portugal where his contemporaries revered him as the best author of his time but not as someone who had revolutionised the language itself
@@stephenosborne8913 Talvez ele não tenha revolucionado a língua em si. Porém Machado foi um autor de transição e seu estilo de escrever e a maneira como ele monta suas narrativas revolucionou a Literatura e abriu novos caminhos a serem tomados pelo Realismo e o Naturalismo (apesar de Machado não ser nada Naturalista :p ). Para ter uma comparação mais exata, poderíamos dizer que Shakespeare está para o inglês, assim como Camões está para o português. Afinal, antes de Shakespeare o inglês não tinha uma estrutura na escrita muito fixa, assim como o português antes de Camões.
@@stephenosborne8913 Você está totalmente errado. Machado mudou totalmente o português com os seus textos. Antes, nós tínhamos um português de portugal. Machado deu o tom, o estilo e o ar brasileiro ao português.
Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas. And this is how starts one of the greatest novels of all time! It's so satisfying to see non (gringo hehe) Brazilians reading it!! Very nice video!!
@Oh yeah Oh yeah why? I am not sure if you're Brazilian or not but gringo just means non Brazilian and it's not meant as anything bad at all. He seems just happy that gringos are also reading Brazilian books =)
@@charlesfieltesjunior4381 Acho que em alguns países aqui de baixo, Argentina, Paraguai, Bolivia, sei lá, eles utilizam gringo com uma conotação extremamente racista... Assim como nos Estados Unidos a galera tem medo de falar nego e aqui a gente fala até com carinho. A palavra tem o poder que você garante a ela. I guess at some latin american contries, Argentina, Paraguai, Bolivia ( I guess) they use "gringo" meaning something extremely racist... Like in the USA, people are really afraid of saying "Nigga" and here we use that fondly. Words got the power you grant to them.
@Oh yeah Oh yeah Relax man, Brazilians have a different relationship with these sorts of "cussing" words, to us gringo just means someone that's not Brazilian, and it's not derogatory in any way. Another example is the one a gentleman just said, we can say "nego" (a similar version of the Nword) and it is just fine to say it. You can see he even gigled there, believe me he did not offend him. :)
É uma frase bastante pesada quando você analisa também a vida dele, o cara não teve filhos e era neto de escravizados o pai era ex-escravidado, alguns tentaram desmerecer a genialidade dele por ser preto, esse foi o legado que ele recebeu da família por ter nascido com aquela cor num país racista e escravocata
Hey man really cool. Even though you dig deep (Fernando Pessoa for example), never thought I would see a brazilian book on your channel :) Amazing review of "Epitath of a Small Winner" (So it isn't just us brazilians who translate things strangely 🤣) Love it! Greetings from Brazil.
Eu escutei uma vez que todo livro traduzido é uma adaptação da obra original. Se você quer saber realmente o que o autor quis dizer, tem que ir na fonte kkkkk eu lembro a primeira vez que tentei ler O Alienista e, bom, duas páginas depois eu só entendi que o a mulher do homem era feia. Só!
continua sendo acessivel em portugues. ele n fica enchendo linguiça e uso uma linguagem bem simples em geral. A unica dificuldade é que, como é um portugues antigo, é mais dificil. enfim
I LOVE THE ALIENIST. Really, oh, its meaning, and its dark humor, and wit, and conclusion... Oh, I miss it. But I'm gonna be honest, I started both Dom Casmurro and Brás Cubas when I was young and though I could understand the geniusness in them (I loooove the delirium chapter of "Epitaph") the old portuguese was really tiresome for me and I never finished any of them. I recently started to read Dom Casmurro again, but I began a lot of other books and I don't know where I stopped no more. Oh, hell, guess I'm gonna try to read Brás Cubas again.
@@TenisJr I never finished Dom Casmurro. Betinho was getting on my nerves and I just wished Capitu would cheat on him publicaly and be done with it. Dude deserved a gigantic pair of horns.
After watching Ler Antes de Morrer review, I realized that Machado wasn´t feeling like Brás Cubas at all, he was mocking him the whole time, specially in the end. Brás Cubas was a white slave owner prck that had access to all the best education abroad and to material things. And never made anything for himself, died an empty and futile life. Machado de Assis, on the other hand, was born into poverty, in an early favela, a mixed race lad that had to work since an early age and had no access to formal education. That´s right, he self learned his way into being one of the greatest writers in Portuguese language. Enjoyed a life of marriage and was esteemed in the highest circles. I just ended my second read - at 13, 14, you can´t really grasp much of it - and Isabella Lubrano`s review shined me a whole other light on it: Machado was probably was watching Brás Cubas write his memoirs with a smirk on his face. But that doesn`t end the conversation, there`s a lot of more things to be said about the wittiness of the book. The life philosophies, the humor, the irony, breaking the fourth wall, treating the reader as a character, the freedom as a defunct writer and so one. A lot o things to be discussed about the book, that`s what makes a good classic.
Eu preciso pesquisar mais a fonte, pq não lembro bem, mas de acordo com meus professores da faculdade esse livro é uma resposta de Machado de Assis a Eça de Queirós. Basicamente, Machado criticou Eça por Os Maias, e Eça criticou Machado por outro livro que não lembro e eles escreveram O primo Basílio e Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas em resposta ao outro.
@master universe Pode falar de complexo de viralata o quanto quiser. Seu nome também tá em inglês. É bom ver a literatura Br sendo reconhecida não porque um gringo diz que ela é boa, mas porque nós sabemos que ela é boa e ver ela sendo difundida é uma chance de mais pessoas verem que o brasileiro também escreve bem.
O Schwartz b é um crítico TB q põe machado e obvota çlsts do vira complexo de inferioridade só pq um portinha q não queria pesquisar como Villa ou Mário massa foi no terreiro e branco de alma mais negra e projetava feiúra dele pra a beleza da de Ipanema é gringa e o escravo negro como sujeito da segurança alimentar européia por excesso de avivar e pôs cana minérios mas gerais pelos da bandeiras e depois dobbo barão do café por isso Brás Cubas é um caprichoso consciente mas não consigo mais para confecções ao poder cosméticos não tem um critério q diríamos dignos de amor q conhecê o outro íntimo e escolhe o parceiro pela dignidade cultural mas rejeita a paixão por a nova digna ter uma perna menor qboutrs e mancar o q não ser fria bonito no social o q o Vinícius falaria feia sendo ele gordo e frio e sem charmefo Ginsburg o Cubas mostra CV omo o bran o TB não teria BN hj BN maicsvo q propor q somos vc ou impasse e ai bloqueia um Brasil pra demandas de brasileiros reais pois não se concebem como pra de oxo senhor pq manda mas servo pq não definw o q produzir não servo pq. Não produz o q atende demanda de massa interna ou externa mas e o q manda e tem a propriedade senhor e servo nem senhor nem servo como paradoxo e importador do pensamento internacional q por exemplo não precisa achar q antropofagia é algo muito q recai nas traduções q por exemplo Lacan tem no conceito de falta ou failt francês um importante pra psique da sua teoria mas fault é culpa ou falta como uma base do desejo e da entrada na socialização na língua.mas no ouvido brasileiro vc diz falta não ressoa nem na classe média no inconsciente como uma privacao q não socializa de modo cívil mas de uma forma q uma nação continente envergonha q Cubas ambiciona o emplastro ou q estamos r3editar o fascismo por bom mocismo e democracia Hitler subiu peça democracia e quantas ogfencas precisamos ouviue rir de nós o machado no folhetim tia com a mulher do homem brsn o político de seu oco e autorização a ser mando patéticos de
This is my favourite passage from the book, truly better than food! “Começo a arrepender-me deste livro. Não que ele me canse; eu não tenho que fazer; e, realmente, expedir alguns magros capítulos para esse mundo sempre é tarefa que distrai um pouco da eternidade. Mas o livro é enfadonho, cheira a sepulcro, traz certa contracção cadavérica; vício grave, e aliás ínfimo, porque o maior defeito deste livro és tu, leitor. Tu tens pressa de envelhecer, e o livro anda devagar; tu amas a narração direita e nutrida, o estilo regular e fluente, e este livro e o meu estilo são como os ébrios, guinam à direita e à esquerda, andam e param, resmungam, urram, gargalham, ameaçam o céu, escorregam e caem...”
O capítulo onde o Brás descreve as "qualidades" do Cotrim, seu cunhado, é um manifesto contra a escravidão, onde Machados lança mão do ponto de vista de um narrador - um morto que foi pusilânime em vida - que tenta achar motivos nobres que se sobreponham ao fato de que Cotrim é mercador de escravos. E o Brás, cinicamente, os acha. Pra mim é o melhor capítulo do livro. Aliás, tudo nesse livro é maravilhoso, de ponta a ponta.
Maybe you have been reading Brazilian's opinions all along, but you just realize we are Brazilians when the topic comes up. Maybe everybody in the internet is Brazilian. Brazilians are inevitable. jk, Brazilians can't shut up about the fact that they are Brazilians.
For those who are interested in becoming a writer, this book is a lesson! Please, pay special attention to the parts when Cubas speaks to the reader. They're pure gold!
As someone once said here "If Machado existed, Brasil is possible." When you read him you understand why he is the greatest Brazilian author of all time! Thank you for this wonderful review of my beloved Machado de Assis!
É realmente um saco quando você olha os comentários pra ver se algum estrangeiro já leu o livro e o que achou dele, e a única coisa que encontra é um MONTE (senão todos os comentários) de brasileiros abanando o rabinho e falando em inglês o quanto estão orgulhosos, todo vídeo que fala QUALQUER coisa positiva sobre o Brasil é exatamente assim, somos realmente os vira-latas do mundo.
@@JosePedro95 pior que é sempre assim, um complexo de vira-lata forte, não vi a mesma coisa dos argentinos quando ele falou sobre Luis Borges, brasileiro só dá valor a algo incrível da cultura dele como Machado de Assis quando um gringo faz vídeo falando sobre
I was traveling through Brazil, stopped for a minute in Rio and fell in love with a beautiful carioca. She introduced me to this novel, which I also fell in love with reading while missing multiple flights and calling Rio home for 6 months. Thanks for the review!
Bras Cubas is also a self complacent member of the small aristocracy in Brazil, and it’s good to remember that, although Machado was free himself, slavery was still rampant well into his adult life. His portrayal of Cubas, and to me this is what makes it even more delightful, is filled with mockery and sarcasm. After all, Cubas May be able to give an account of his life from a vantage point, being dead, but he cannot control the extent to which the reader is still able to see through his vanity and tell when he is being unscrupulous.
That's all fine and dandy, it gathers "Likes" and the shit, well done. But will you ever publicly acknowledge that black people facilitated selling their own people? Without the help of black natives themselves, slavery could never be viable. Even the indian natives had more self-respect, they actively refused to work regardless of the consequences, that is one of the reasons why african labor was brought in the first place. But that's the ugly part of history no one will ever admit. There's a brazilian holiday in honor of "Zumbi dos Palmares", he made a living by actively trafficking black slaves himself!! God fucking damn it, I'm tired of this bullshit crybaby nonsense.
@@FeelingShred Black people had slaves too in Brazil and even slaves were owners of other slaves. It was not rare that a slave would buy his freedom by selling slaves. The real names behind the movement for the end of slavery are eternalized in the most meaningless of places: street names. How many people ever read about André Rebouças in school books, for example?
@@FeelingShred For god sake, how huge is the Bolsominion (Bolsonaro Suporter) stupidity? It doesn't make any sense a opinion based in a white christian conservative perspective about slavery, specially when we know that 12 million people were took from africa for centuries (England, Spain Portugal, Neederlands...) and almost 5 million came to Brazil to make Rio de Janeiro the most slavery trade capitol in the world, is sad, very sad!
.Listening your voice from Spain, sometimes from France. It is just so good listening to you. And all those books that rings my bell. Thank You for the gesture, Internet makes sense.
Nem consigo expressar minha felicidade ao ver uma resenha tão linda de um dos nossos maiores escritores aqui no seu canal! Muito amor pra você. Beijos!
@@adrianopadilha7338 I like Quincas Borba better too. But if you're going to read both (and both are very worth reading), I'd say it makes more sense to go for Brás first. After all, Quincas is somewhat of a sequel to Brás.
"Apparently even Woody Allen likes him" Hahah... That was a funny thing. Woody Allen would be lucky if Machado de Assis allowed him to clean his boots.
I'm from Brazil and Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is my favorite book written by a Brazilian writer. So happy to see Machado de Assis being read overseas. :)
@@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115 ela nasceu na Ucrânia mas se naturalizou no Brasil. Ela nem nasceu na cidade da família dela porque eles já estavam viajando quando a mãe dela deu a luz. Eu considero ela brasileira.
She was a mind's player. Her books bring me to another world, I always read and reread a lot of times "Paixão segundo GH" and the start is really relatable with me, and with everyone kind of "Eu perdi um terceiro tripé, que me impedia de andar, porém me dava estabilidade". (I lost a third tripod, It used to make me unable to walk, but also gave me stability)
@@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115 Dizer que Clarice Lispector não é uma autora da literatura brasileira, uma criança criada aqui, no Nordeste, falando português desde sempre, escrevendo em português e convivendo e se correspondendo com os autores e autoras brasileiros, com contato zero com a Ucrânia e a cultura ucraniana... Que papelão
Really nice. I love Machado. I suggest also Grande Sertão: Veredas from Guimarães Rosa. I dont known How is the translate (If its good, because its not easy even for portuguese speakers), but It worth It.
It's indeed a good time to read Grande Sertão: Veredas in English: a recent translation has been done by the Australian-Brazilian translator Alison Entrekin, a major improve from the previous English translation of the book.
Thank you so much for your review. Because of it, I discovered this incredible writer. In less than a day I finished this masterpiece. It was my first of many Machados to come.
In terms of Brazilian literature quality, it's often considered a tie between Machado and Guimarães Rosa. The latter has a more modern approach, uses stream of conciousness and neologism. Kinda like a Brazilian James Joyce. The Devil to Pay in The Backlands is often cited in lists of greatest books ever written. I've never read it in English, I can't tell if the translation is good. The original (Grande Sertão: Veredas) is one of my favorite books ever.
Galera, sossega. Um gringo lendo literatura brasileira, e vocês já começam a bater palma como se fosse algo incrível. Talvez, essa surpresa fale muito sobre o quanto vocês valorizam a nossa produção artística. Passam a validar literatura brasileira porque um gringo o fez.
It is so fun to watch a guy from another country being such a fan of Machado. Brazilian literature has many great authors. Try Erico Verissimo and Jorge Amado. You'll love it.
@Gabriel Ramos eu li laços de família quando tinha uns 12 anos, odiei cada um dos contos, hahah, talvez por ser mto novo, mas ja tinha lido machado por exemplo e gostado...
@Gabriel Ramos Isso do livro certo é muito sério, pode arruinar nosso gosto por um autor. Na escola nos mandaram ler "Helena" do Machado, odiei e demorei anos para conseguir dar uma segunda chance e apreciar esse grande autor hahah.
As a native Portuguese speaker I feel so blessed to be able to read Machado de Assis’s books the way he wrote it, not a translated version. Machado is a truly master, a genius! His masterpieces, certainly, immortalized him.
He trully is the best author our country. And that is my favourite book. I got a job once because of Machado. I made a presentation on my Interview as I was already an employee of that company. They loved it. Needles to say, Brás Cubas inspired me. Great review, from a great book, from a great author. You just got a follower! Cheers
Great channel! 😊👏🏼 one book suggestion: Ensaio sobre a cegueira - José Saramago. Saramago was a Portuguese author and, in my opinion, one of the bests writers of Portuguese language.
Juro que a última vez que li Vidas Secas, apesar da história apelar para a brutalidade do sofrimento humano, eu achei a narrativa um tanto quanto caótica para de fato apreciar o livro .
I bought Epitaph because of this review. It is one of my all time favorites now. Alfred Jarry's "Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll, Pataphysician" has a similar element to it, but the two books are completely unique in their own right. Great review.
Machado was pretty much self taught. A man of mixed race, a mulato, who rose socially through hard work, through his writing skills, civil service, and became a very respected man through the Empire and the early days of our Republic. He as married to a Portuguese woman, and who was also educated, and did not have children. His books were not action laden but rather focused on the characters and social commentary, so they may sound slow for younger generations, however, when you come to think of their structures, he was truly innovative. He used unreliable narrators on purpose to wonderful effects, broke the third wall, changed narrators, did not shirk from giving dubious endings, so that one readers could debate for eaons what really happened. He was a man who was born poor, extremely intelligent, never had the means to travel, was an introvert, but turned his city in a very big world, because he saw each person as a universe of possibilities... often pessimistic, yes, but... Unfortunately, being Brazilian, he was barred from the minimum European exposure of Portuguese literature, and writing in Portuguese, made him less known in Latin America. I wish Brazilian writers had more international atention, so I thank the reviewer, cause he did capture the book and the writer, and invite him to delve further into our literature.
There still remains, perhaps, some glory in being Brazilian. I read it while in high school, as well as his much more famous "Dom Casmurro" - and some times in detriment of the books we were demanded to read. Great review, really captures what is so fascinating about his writing.
I watched this review of yours many times, and now I've read it with my book club and by god is this book good, and your review too, keep up the good work!!!
This is a great youtube channel and i’ve only discovered it because of this video. Great commentary on the book, and i feel like, as many people in the comments are saying, DO READ DOM CASMURRO, or however it was translated to english. It is an amazing pillar of Brazilian literature and can only be stated as one of the greatest pieces by machado. If you need an eye-catcher factor, it’s a romance written on the eyes of a old man who, reevaluates the validity and truthfulness of the relationship he had with the love of his life, even questioning her loyalty. it’s amazing, and spoilers: one of the greatest debates around the books, is we never really got any confirmation from machado if she really did cheat on him, or if it was all an artifact from his mind. stuff of the legend, do give it a try! and thanks again for the great content 👏👏👏
As many other comments have also metnioned, it is great to see one of the greatest works of Brazilian literature given some love by someone who's not Brazilian. I would like to point out, however, that Brás Cubas is usually seen as an unreliable narrator. Despite being dead and having no real reason to lie, one of the most important aspects of the book is leaving the reader wondering what actually happened, and what you can actually trust. This is noticeable when you realize there are some inconsistencies in some aspects of his story. Anyways it is very nice to see this book getting some love, great review, and I'd love to see some more Brazilian books in the future!
Brasileiro: affs! que saco, ser obrigado a ler isso... tem o resumo? já virou filme? youtuber gringo: um dos melhores livros que eu já li! genial! O mesmo brasileiro: Que orgulho! Machado é o cara!!
You should read Dom Casmurro as well. Machado is known for being a Shakespearean author. Dom Casmurro is inspired by Othello. Machado is also a brilliant short story teller. I liked the fact you mentioned Borges, who was a reader of Machado like Harold Bloom. Cheers
Just finished reading Hard Rain Falling. It was fantastic. Thank you for reviewing it / bringing it to my attention and allowing me to enjoy it as well. Love the channel. Cheers
i read this book a few days ago. it is everything said in this video. A wonderful gem of a novel, almost unbelievable written 140 years ago. I mistakenly pronounced his name as Makado De Assis in my video. Oops!
Menina, minha pressão foi para lá no pé! Quem diria que esse momento ia chegar? AINDA COM A MELHOR DEDICATÓRIA JÁ ESCRITA! Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas
It's really a terrific short story! In English, it was translated as "The Fortune-Teller" and can be found in the book The wolrd's greatest short stories, edited by James Daley.
First chapter: "The romantics will find this book too realistic. The Realists will find it too romantic, so no one will like it. But I'm dead so I don't care either way"
Machado was the most ironic narrative engineer in Brazilian literature. Black, self-taught, stutterer, erudite, psichoabalitic and brilliant. If he is the greatest Brazilian writer it is a opinion question. In my opinion he is.
Machado is absolutely a great writer of our country (I’m from Brazil), and this book of his is one of the bests (especially when you start to read and the preface starts the way it does). Have you tried his “Dom Casmurro”? It is also great! In here, whenever you go and there’s a reader, he/she will talk about the ending of it! Great video!
Machado de Assis is obligatory read for kids in Literature classes in Brazil, but many people here have never read or got any curiosity for his work. His books are amazing! He's been my favorite author for decades. I'm really glad that the rest of the world can also appreciate such an amazing artist like him. Congratulations for this video!
This is so damn cool! Great review, really happy that you loved Machado de Assis. Can’t wait to see when ppl find out one other of our greats: Guimarães Rosa. Greetings from São Paulo!
How Amazing is to see someone from another country appreciating Machado!!! I would like to see your reaction to Ariano Suassuna's book: Alto da Compadecida
I just discovered your channel through my recommendations and I love it. As a Brazillian I'm suspicious to talk, but Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of my favorites books by Machado de Assis, and if you liked it I would recommend you to read Dom Casmurro, you're gonna love it, is one of his best books for me.
One of the best endings I’ve ever read and my favourite final sentence (which I now feel sounds even better in Portuguese). Thank you for this great review - it’s made me want to reread the novel, perhaps in English.
Mr Sargent! Very good commentary especially as Machado is tough nut to crack for many foreign readers but you seem to grasp that fine irony line and the path towards the criticism of the Brazilian, especially Rio de Janeiro, which was for generations the centre of reign and then civilian and military and then civilian power again in a very fragile but withstanding democracy learning to cope with the new globalist attempts through the world. Congratulations for your choice and thoughts. You´ve just become BRAZILIAN Literature AMABASSADOR over there! Someday I will pay you a personal visit and offer the 'medal' - keep up the great work! Loved it, a big hug from Brazil!
Emocionante ver esse livro ser valorizado fora do Brasil, vejo que no Brasil não valorizamos tanto o conteúdo e sim a cor do autor ou seu sexo. Machado de Assis é um altor incrível com livros maravilhosos e emocionantes, o meu amor por livros começou exatamente com ele no livro Memorias Póstumas de Brás Cubas!!! Por isso creio que o mundo deveria conhecer mais sobre esse excelente autor e lhe dar o valor que ele merece!!!
