Name: HYP Book Club: “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas”
Start: 2024-07-21T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Soldier's Grove

$HYP Book Club: \u201cThe Posthumous Memoirs of Br\u00e1s Cubas\u201d$

In the 1881 novel ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas’ by Machado de Assis, the ghost of a decadent and
disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of
his failed romances and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and complains with
gusto from the depths of his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and ahead of its time, the novel has been
compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Joyce to Nabokov to Borges to Calvino, and has
influenced generations of writers around the world. Come discuss this lesser known classic with the HYP Book
Club.
Please register for the event on Cogran: https://www.cogran.io/index.html?hyp#/ and send any questions
to Dave Beaver at [email protected]