Note: 19th century Portuguese spelling: "Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas" First released between March and December of 1881 inside the Revista Brasileira. Released as book in 1882 by the Tipografia Nacional. First book from Machado's Realistic Trilogy.

Synopsis: Brás Cubas is dead. But that doesn't stop him from reporting in his book the events of his existence and of his great fixed idea: to launch the Emplasto Brás Cubas. God forbid, reader, a fixed idea. The antihypochondriac medicine becomes the spark of a series of memories, reminiscences and digressions of the life of the deceased author. Published in 1881, written with the feather of the joke and the ink of melancholy, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is possibly the most important Brazilian novel of all time. Innovative, ironic, rebellious, it touches the deepest part of the human being. But it's worth warning: there's a bitter and harsh feeling in the soul of this book, no matter how laughable it may seem.