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THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRS CUBAS

LIBRARY OF LATIN AMERICA

General Editor
Jean Franco

Series Editor for Brazil
Richard Graham, with the assistance of Alfredo Bosi

Editorial Board
Antonio Cornejo Polar
Tulio Halpern Donghi
Ivn jaksiNaomi Lindstrom Eduardo Lozano Francine Masiello THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF - photo 1
Naomi Lindstrom
Eduardo Lozano
Francine Masiello

THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRS CUBAS A Novel by JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE - photo 2

THE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRS CUBAS

A Novel by
JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS

Translated from the Portuguese by
GREGORY RABASSA

WITH A FOREWORD BY ENYLTON DE S REGO

AND AN AFTERWORD BY GILBERTO PINHEIRO PASSOS

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Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press

First Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 1997

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Machado de Assis, 1839-1908.
[Memrias pstumas de Brs Cubas, English]
The posthumous memoirs of Brs Cubas / by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis:
translated by Gregory Rabassa: with a foreword by Enylton de S Rego
and an afterword by Gilberto Pinheiro Passos.
p. cm. (Library of Latin America)
ISBN 0-19-510170-7 (Pbk)
I. Rabassa, Gregory. II. Title. III. Series.
PQ9697.M18M513 1997
869.3dc20 96-44125

1 3 5 7 9 1 0 8 6 4 2
Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Preface
ENYLTON DE S REGO

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas
JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS

Afterword
GILBERTO PINHEIRO PASSOS

The Library of Latin America series makes available in translation major nineteenth-century authors whose work has been neglected in the English-speaking world. The titles for the translations from the Spanish and Portuguese were suggested by an editorial committee that included Jean Franco (general editor responsible for works in Spanish), Richard Graham (series editor responsible for works in Portuguese), Tulio Halpern Donghi (at the University of California, Berkeley), Ivn jaksiPicture 4 (at the University of Notre Dame), Naomi Lindstrom (at the University of Texas at Austin), Francine Masiello (at the University of California, Berkeley), and Eduardo Lozano of the Library at the University of Pittsburgh. The late Antonio Cornejo Polar of the University of California, Berkeley, was also one of the founding members of the committee. The translations have been funded thanks to the generosity of the Lampadia Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

During the period of national formation between 1810 and into the early years of the twentieth century, the new nations of Latin America fashioned their identities, drew up constitutions, engaged in bitter struggles over territory, and debated questions of education, government, ethnicity, and culture. This was a unique period unlike the process of nation formation in Europe and one which should be more familiar than it is to students of comparative politics, history, and literature.

The image of the nation was envisioned by the lettered classesa minority in countries in which indigenous, mestizo, black, or mulatto peasants and slaves predominatedalthough there were also alternative nationalisms at the grassroots level. The cultural elite were well educated in European thought and letters, but as statesmen, journalists, poets, and academics, they confronted the problem of the racial and linguistic heterogeneity of the continent and the difficulties of integrating the population into a modern nation-state. Some of the writers whose works will be translated in the Library of Latin America series played leading roles in politics. Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, a friar who translated Rousseaus The Social Contract and was one of the most: colorful characters of the independence period, was faced with imprisonment and expulsion from Mexico for his heterodox beliefs; on his return, after independence, he was elected to the congress. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, exiled from his native Argentina under the presidency of Rosas, wrote Facundo: Civilizacin y barbarie, a stinging denunciation of that government. He returned after Rosas overthrow and was elected president in 1868. Andrs Bello was born in Venezuela, lived in London where he published poetry during the independence period, settled in Chile where he founded the University, wrote his grammar of the Spanish language, and drew up the countrys legal code.

These post-independence intelligentsia were not simply dreaming castles in the air, but vitally contributed to the founding of nations and the shaping of culture. The advantage of hindsight may make us aware of problems they themselves did not foresee, but this should not affect our assessment of their truly astonishing energies and achievements. It is still surprising that the writing of Andrs Bello, who contributed fundamental works to so many different fields, has never been translated into English. Although there is a recent translation of Sarmientos celebrated Facundo, there is no translation of his memoirs, Recuerdos de provincia (Provincial Recollections). The predominance of memoirs in the Library of Latin America series is no accidentmany of these offer entertaining insights into a vast and complex continent.

Nor have we neglected the novel. The series includes new translations of the outstanding Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis work, including Dom Casmurro and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas. There is no reason why other novels and writers who are not so well known outside Latin Americathe Peruvian novelist Clorinda Matto de Turners Aves sin nido, Nataniel Aguirres Juan de la Rosa, Jos de Alencars Iracema, Juana Manuela Gorritis short storiesshould not be read with as much interest as the political novels of Anthony Trollope.

A series on nineteenth-century Latin America cannot, however, be limited to literary genres such as the novel, the poem, and the short story. The literature of independent Latin America was eclectic and strongly influenced by the periodical press newly liberated from scrutiny by colonial authorities and the Inquisition. Newspapers were miscellanies of fiction, essays, poems, and translations from all manner of European writing. The novels written on the eve of Mexican Independence by Jos Joaqun Fernndez de Lizardi included disquisitions on secular education and law, and denunciations of the evils of gaming and idleness. Other works, such as a well-known poem by Andrs Bello, Ode to Tropical Agriculture, and novels such as Amalia

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