Machado de Assis
novelist · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 1839–1908
A novelist born into a poor family in Rio, who taught himself to write while apprenticed at a printing house. He changed Brazilian literature with a novel in the form of memoirs written by a dead man from beyond the grave.
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1881
For some time I hesitated whether I should open these memoirs at the beginning or at the end, that is, whether I should put my birth or my death in first place.
Algum tempo hesitei se devia abrir estas memorias pelo principio ou pelo fim, isto é, se poria em primeiro logar o meu nascimento ou a minha morte.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, chapter 1
1881
I am not exactly an author who is dead, but a dead man who is an author.
eu não sou propriamente um autor defunto, mas um defunto autor
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, chapter 1
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