Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Epitaph of a Small Winner) - Machado De Assis BOOK REVIEW

[@anaveras5451]

Uploads this video: Every Brazilian reader ever: screams

[@vfa9761]

I did it right now! 😍🤩

[@annalima7166]

MEEE

[@DessahLS]

Yup!

[@savinsnsn]

14 yo brazillian readers: *screams

[@guilhermetonon7267]

😂😂😂👍✌️

[@felipecavalheiro7971]

English: I will die for love American: I will die for my country Russian: I will die Machadão: I am already dead, lol

[@luizantonio0808]

Lol that got me

[@luiza8905]

this is so fucking good dear lord

[@abbyagust]

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

[@bergspot]

@@abbyagust exactly so... The love part is what the French would say.

[@ya-ro6ff]

russian i will die KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@igoraltomare2310]

I'd suggest you to read Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis! Our brazilian Otello 💚🤓

[@DessahLS]

Up

[@Victoria-hi1mq]

Dom Casmurro's definitively the brazilian Otelo. Hahahaha

[@13AndreFalcao666]

I actually find it way better than Otello... But that's not really important

[@stephanniecaroline7279]

Up

[@oslusiadas1196]

@@13AndreFalcao666 Me too!

[@LeonardoSFagundes]

>Brazilian author >Mexican skull on the cover of the book

[@mateusleon]

Indeed, there are quite a few misconceptions that remain to be fixed.

[@Billyce18]

don't get so harsh on it. It helps to sell better.

[@LuizFelipe-nk2vg]

Né mano, nada a ver ksksksksks

[@analuizaarantes1095]

Pelo menos, no contexto da obra, se encaixa um símbolo de morte kk

[@mariomend6480]

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.

[@talic-os5899]

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]

"And she loves it." at what age did she read it?

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

I find the XX-century works very reader friendly. The ones that came before that, not so much.

[@talic-os5899]

@@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

[@CerealForMe]

@@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

[@catboyYuta]

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...

[@pedrosiemsen8311]

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 :)

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

Thank you very much Pedro, I'm honored and greatly appreciate that.

[@MMarcuzzo]

I just subscribed too

[@rafaelbordoni516]

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.

[@isodoubIet]

Meh, not really missing out on much.

[@kingeternal_ap]

@@isodoubIet I kind of not recommend that... author's portuguese is a little... HARD. Even to brazilians

[@kingeternal_ap]

Words that were common that period of time are now forgotten, and rather obscure meaning

[@juliangell]

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.

[@Maizanini]

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.

[@EpifaniaExperiencia]

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.

[@mateusbertolaccini3805]

Epifania Experiência estranha tradução kkkkk

[@userneime]

@@mateusbertolaccini3805 epitáfio*

[@luisaabreu4028]

@@userneime Epifania Experiência é só o nome de usuário do cara que comentou.

[@marcospatricio7455]

Yeah, fuck that title!

[@mateusbertolaccini3805]

Lucas Vieira usando arroba para citar? Joga AFK Arena, brother?

"Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas" would be the non-adapted translation of the title - in case anyone wanna know.

[@drogadepc]

*Memoirs

@@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.

[@soueu8D]

It's just funny to see 2 (now 3) portuguese speakers talking to each other in english on some random corner of internet

​@@soueu8D When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

[@LWOliver]

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.

[@coytada3075]

Todo professor de literatura: Machado de Assis é um dos maiores escritores do mundo Brasileiros: fodase KZbinr gringo qualquer: nossa Machado realmente é bom Brasileiros: QUE ORGULHO MDS QUE HONRA

[@GeovaneDias7]

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.

[@LucasCMaia-qy8es]

Viralatismo

[@mattvideoeditor]

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.

[@costantin75]

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.

[@amaurymiranda4636]

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.

[@yami_washi]

I'm a simple man, I see someone reviewing Brazilian stuff, I click

[@armandofonseca87]

Try SKULL: THE MASK

[@marcellyfaustinodesouza7373]

brazilian stuff are amazing :D

[@chevalierduchrist1754]

Are you brazilian?

[@e-junior]

Like a brazilian

[@LucasBatistaAndrade1]

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!!

[@charles_pensamentocritico]

@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 =)

[@victornunes2378]

​@@charles_pensamentocritico 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.

[@hershmysson]

​@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. :)

[@analuizahernandessandano]

Realmente

[@rikolbe]

Não tive filhos, não transmiti a nenhuma criatura o legado de nossa miséria.

[@anabefm]

I once heard Machado de Assis just isn’t as huge as Shakespeare because he wrote in Portuguese.

[@stephenosborne8913]

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

[@Mukkki]

You could say that with every big poet from every country. Why istn fucking Goethe as huge as Shakespear?

[@Gabriel_Pires]

@@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.

[@guilhermegam9773]

@@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.

[@Pantano63]

That's an absurd delusion. He's good but he is nowhere near Shakespeare.

[@markdavey8142]

Just finished it today, and.... probably the best book I've ever read...

[@e.2862]

as a brazilian, i am glad you enjoyed it!

[@guilhermecillo6938]

"the writting isn't verbose or stuffy. It's accessible, it's easy to get into" well, maybe in English cause in Portuguese OH BOY I've suffered

[@loveylace4541]

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!

[@davida.rosales6025]

19th Century Portuguese to 21st Century English. This English tends to be more compact.

[@e.2862]

Cara, eu li a versão em inglês porque a em português tava sendo um INFERNO de entender. Machadão é brabo

[@shslsomething8195]

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

[@Ellen_Seokjin]

Eu não entendi foi nada kk. Pretendo reler.

[@judy2406]

So happy to see brazilian literature represented ♡

[@gus..611]

KZbin’s algorithm dropped me off here and I'm in love with this channel! Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷 Machado is my favorite classical writer in Brazil.

[@Diegolobobranco]

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[@gpeddino]

"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.

[@deniserosa5710]

So good.

[@fabricioazevedo2361]

Darkest humor ever...

[@elleam8975]

in Brazilian Portuguese you don't say "a good book" you say: "AE MACHADÃO" this is beautiful!

[@feu91]

LOL

[@arthurgoes4159]

Nunca vi um ser humano dizer isso

[@lulauriano425]

KASINÃO NO SABADAÇO 😂😂😂😂

[@anacavalcanti99]

@@arthurgoes4159então você não convive no meio literário 😂

[@dolydoly5679]

​​@@arthurgoes4159deve ser um jovenzinho.

[@anewdusk2499]

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...”

[@gabrieladias6056]

Basicamente, Machado falando o quanto ele é fera e nos chamando de burros. E ele tem razão.

[@TheRayokeydokey]

A metalinguagem que vc nem percebe que é.

[@vagflu07]

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.

[@Elisagadelha]

I recommend Dom Casmurro and The Alienist of Machado de Assis.

[@lucas-qr1br]

The Alienist is one of the most funny/sad books I have ever read

[@lucascruz3977]

Putz, terminei o Alienista hoje, muito bom mesmo! (What I meant is: I read the Alienist and think it's a very good book)

[@histarlen]

@@lucascruz3977 é bom mesmo

[@TenisJr]

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.

[@Mastermint]

@@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.

[@sofiam9921]

"Não tive filhos, não transmiti a nenhuma criatura o legado de nossa miséria"

[@rysss1664]

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

[@libercode9886]

@@rysss1664 Isso é a frase de Bras Cubas, não de Machado....

[@fabricioazevedo2361]

@@rysss1664 Deixa eu dizer uma coisa. Eu só descobri que Machado era mulato ou negro quando eu tinha 35 anos!!! Branqueamento total.

[@jojoh.5778]

​@@fabricioazevedo2361branqueamento kkkkkkkk, Hilário

[@fabricioazevedo2361]

@@jojoh.5778 E com quantos anos você descobriu isso?

[@jenniferkrohnbourgeois71]

I really want to read this now. I loved his book The Alienist.

[@ze714]

aged really well in the Trump era, didn't it? hahaha

[@RutraNickers]

I'm here to read international opinions but I can only see brazillians talking about ourselves.

[@lCerezal]

Sorry if we are proud of our literature -qq

[@talic-os5899]

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.

[@haiironosora9714]

Beleza queu tô lendo um monte de brasileiro na internet conversando com outros brasileiros em inglês :p

[@normaparrot6358]

Are you Brazilian?😜

[@andyisdead]

The vast majority of Machado readers are Brazilians

[@AZMTECH]

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.

[@BarbaraNascimento-tv2ih]

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.

[@cristina-vv6fw]

machado de assis foi um gênio, honrou e ainda honra nossa cultura; parabéns pelo vídeo

[@edwardclm]

Não diria gênio, diria herói.

[@cristina-vv6fw]

Edward Lima gênio e herói hahah

[@Larissa-kg3pz]

Mil vezes sim!!!

[@DrinkWater713]

Odeio Machado De Assis. Ele se acha tão engraçado...

[@sam_3545]

@@DrinkWater713 e você se acha mais?

[@filipefhn]

Machado de Assis is just the tip of the Iceberg for brazilian literature

[@deck33]

Horas vendo gringos reagindo a coisas aleatórias do Brasil finalmente deram frutos. E valeu a pena cada segundo por esse vídeo.

[@deck33]

@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.

[@otaviodebarros8537]

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

[@vandomaciel3707]

Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas.🇧🇷😍

[@RafaelCarvalho2310]

Melhor introdução de qualquer livro na história!

[@TheElizabethDM]

eu quis morrer com a tradução pro inglês, que língua pobre, senhor

[@RodrigoLSilva-od9ev]

Caralho arrepiei lendo aqui de novo. kkkkkk.

[@ducrovisk]

@@RodrigoLSilva-od9ev veja como a tradução pro inglês ficou parecendo uma ervilha perto dessa frase tão vasta de percepção

[@wellstone1897]

"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.

[@marcosvalium2712]

fuck woody allen, the guy married his wife's daughter

[@fernandar.silveira3872]

Wellstone, Perfect. He would be so Lucky if so...

[@biscoito1r]

Woody Allan would gladly screen "The day the clown cried" to Machado de Assis.

[@TalesHilaricki]

Being related any how to Woody Allen is something to be ashamed....

[@Pantano63]

@@marcosvalium2712 Only after his wife cheated on him. Perfect revenge, I'd say.

[@RafaelGaudenzi77]

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.

[@isabellafelipedeoliveiraca6698]

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.

[@luizcadu]

I've seen it translated with the title "the devil to pay in the backlands"

[@fvaz]

Is it even possible to translate it properly?

[@Кайо-н4в]

Guimarães Bosta 👎

[@sahtification]

Eu não me considero fluente em português porque não consigo ler Rosa, imagina o tradutor HAHAHAHA deve ser um monstro sagrado

[@donmaikurosawa1500]

By the way, Machado was an avid Poe reader. And, like Poe, he mastered the art of playing with the reader's imagination.

[@MsTsuki123]

And, by the way, he was one of the first to translate "Nevermore"

[@joaovictorandrade936]

@@MsTsuki123 and, by the way, is one of the best translations

[@lilovs9952]

Lol if Poe ever found out a nigga was reading his poems he’d get pissed

[@felipecavalheiro7971]

verdade. Ele traduziu o poema do corvo (e tem a melhor tradução, só perde para o original)

[@_diogopires_]

To winners: the potatoes!!

[@RodrigoLSilva-od9ev]

Acabei de ler semana passada. Muito boooom.

[@dokscy44]

I'm proud to see so many brazilian compatriots in this productive channel. These are dark times for our people, we need more readers.

[@eriveltonnogueira9634]

- José de Alencar - Jorge Amado - Guimarães Rosa - Clarice Lispector 💕💕💕

[@Gustavo_Ramires]

Não esquece do Graciliano Ramos

[@eriveltonnogueira9634]

Não esqueci, são mts na real

[@marcelogalvan6266]

Lúcio Cardoso, Dalton Trevisan, Caio Fernando Abriu, João Silvério Trevisan, Lugya Fagundes Telles.... tantos...

[@cferracini]

Classire Lispector only the poems. Not that she writes poor stories, it's just that the poems are sooooo much better. It's almost unfair to compare.

[@JuanReads]

I haven’t read Memórias Póstumas de Bras Cubas yet but I love Dom Casmurro. Great review!

[@adrianopadilha7338]

Go for his "Quincas Borba" first.

[@carolinaparente5808]

Capitães da Areia is an amazing opition. The story is awesome!

[@Lucasp110]

@Christiano Vasconcelos I'd have to say Esaú e Jacó

[@denisclaudio]

@@carolinaparente5808 Capitães da Areia?

[@luizcadu]

@@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.

[@nefastocurvatorio538]

I Love Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector and João Guimarães Rosa.

[@lipeeefl]

@Gabriel Ramos eu por outro lado odeio o estilo da clarice

[@lipeeefl]

@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...

[@lipeeefl]

@Gabriel Ramos é questao de gosto, um dia dou outra chance pra clarice

[@Fernanda-te1uv]

Concordo! Só acrescentaria Caio Fernando Abreu

[@luizcadu]

@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.

[@luizcadu]

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.

[@feliperebellosc]

Não entendi metade mas concordei com tudo.

[@luizcadu]

@@feliperebellosc hahah só recomendando o Grande Sertão: veredas pro camarada aí ;)

[@MarceloChaves1971]

Machado 7 x 1 Rosa IMHO

[@wonderlandbunny8160]

You should read Jorge Amado, maybe Capitães de Areia.

[@wonderlandbunny8160]

@Carlos Penteado ??????? Eu só disse que ele devia ler pois é um bom autor. Como diria o ditado popular o que o cú tem haver com as calças? O ser humano para a vida pra encontrar o que criticar é incrível.

[@coytada3075]

Machado is really a nice writer but you really should search Mc Carol Meu Namorado é Um Otario

[@peristiloperis7789]

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!

[@parallel23s]

He's really our best writer. You need to check BARREN LIVES, from Graciliano Ramos. My all time favorite brazilian book. Such a classic!

[@marialuisasvabvalerio7177]

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 .

[@kmillamonteiro1]

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!

[@noadiab]

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!

[@ianesgrecia8568]

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"

[@victorrsouz]

I wish I've read his books in other contexts than school homework. I need to rediscover Assis's work.

[@oslusiadas1196]

I am rediscoverind him now that I am 23 and I'm loving!

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

that is the problem that leads many of us to hate our literature.

[@thiagoklock5064]

@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult its honestly a very complex literature for childs, and we all had to deal with him sometime.

[@ledademboscki4304]

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.

[@marialuizamilano3227]

👏👏👏👏

[@FeelingShred]

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.

[@Lucifri]

@@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?

[@taketheleft5738]

@@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!

[@nowheredan27]

Brazilians in the chat represent!

[@EmptyKingdoms]

So you're telling me the _story_ did not matter than much, but rather the (main) _character_ (protagonist?). And the way he _perspective-ises_ everything that happens is what really charmed you. Ok. I can flow with that.

[@joaov.m.oliveira9903]

The story in itself is vulgar beyond repair. Brás Cubas is the typical son of a high middle-class, slave-owning family. Not the agrarian type of slave owners, but the city-living type, who'd send their sons to Europe so they could get a degree and inherit the family name with dignity. This fact in itself sets the whole amoral tone of the main character. Machado describes in advance the sadistic relationship between the young boy Brás Cubas and a slave boy he used as a beast. Later in the story, his passion for women make it impossible for him to be a role model or even a respectable person (something he knew pretty well). So he kind of live his life doing close to nothing, having this endless affair with a married lady (who seem to be waiting for the death of her husband so they can finally marry). The whole story is so vulgar that it becomes funny at the same time cause its full of these grotesque, ironic tragedies, as if life was a dark comedy. When the husband finally dies, Brás himself dies soon after. When he comes across a beautiful young lady from a very good family, someone with whom he could easily marry, he notes she has crippled legs and so on...

[@EmptyKingdoms]

@@joaov.m.oliveira9903 Thank you for the reminder. Yes, I read the story (as I'm brazillian and a literary scholar, I can and indeed did read the original). I do not know if _vulgar_ is the appropriate word, but it sure is as _empty_ as a "city-living type" can get. That scene where a child Brás Cubas mounts the back of his slave as a horse serves a much more didactic purpose than it first seems… Later down the book, closer to the end, there's a scene with an ex-slave, a free black man, punishing his (black) slave for everyone to see. A sharp social, cultural and psychological commentary from the pen of Joaquim Maria. There is, indeed, this moderately dark sense of humour all over the book, which remains one of the reasons I love it. Also, it remains a strong social critique on the higher (uneducated) classes of Brazil, which, differently to the higher classes some other countries, live their lives "doing close to nothing". =D

[@Fiction_Beast]

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!

[@Yurinsm]

Have you ever read The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma or The Patriot (Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma) by Lima Barreto?

[@gilmarsilvadamasceno9537]

Lima Barreto is 😊fantatisc

[@kelvyndidaskalos547]

O conto "A cartomante" é muito bom. Recomendo.

[@henriquecavalcante9324]

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.

[@ZilgoStardust]

SIM!!

[@lariheerdt]

Empata com "O enfermeiro" entre os meus preferidos.

[@beavortex]

I really recommend you Clarice Lispector. She is one of the greatest female Brazilian writters. Her psichological approach is just amazing

[@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115]

mas ela não é brasileira, não é? Acho que ela só viveu aqui

[@beavortex]

@@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.

[@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115]

@@beavortex sem dúvida, só falo isso pro caso de alguém poder ter se confundido, muito obrigado por explicar

[@ostlich6419]

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)

[@tomaswoodall]

@@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

[@janainasenem3513]

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.

[@marcelotimoteo99]

The books was published in 1880. Slavery in Brazil was over in 1888.

[@1tether]

Are you ever going to read something happy?

[@marcosevero1523]

Please don't!

[@ximena7294]

This is not a sad book. Actually, Machado de Assis has a very peculiar kind of humor.

[@patriciadesaloschiavo5904]

Read before coment please

[@lucyinthesky2023]

In fact, it's really funny. Machado's sense of humor reminds me of Woody Allen's movies, althought Machado is less dramatic and more relaxed . The point is that he is very conscious of his own limitations and he pokes fun at himself.

[@1tether]

I don't thinks folks realize I'm not ragging on this book. I'm commenting on the trend of dark books being reviewed. Regardless of the content or inclusion of humor. The themes are dark. What happened to the world's optimism and wonder? Why can't we reach into the bright future or romantic past? Where are the mysteries of distant lands or stars just within our grasp? Can't we look outside of ourselves again?

[@barbaraklein.plussize]

You should try Noite na Taverna (A night in the tavern), by Álvares de Azevedo. It's a Gothic novel, one of my favorites so far. I bet you'd love it. 😉👍

[@eteixeira3532]

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.

[@leonduarte3409]

Pensei a mesma coisa

[@JosePedro95]

E é triste como as pessoas esperam essa "aprovação" dos estrangeiros para validarem a nossa cultura. Isso é realmente um saco.

[@leonduarte3409]

@@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

[@JosePedro95]

@@leonduarte3409 e olha o número de visualizações em relação aos demais vídeos? Não duvido nada ele aparecer com mais livros brasileiros

[@campelady4576]

As a brazilian girl, I'm SO DAMN HAPPY to see my favorite national author being aprecciated by the world ♡

[@deboranunessantos2566]

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.

[@nelsonhsg198801]

Another good Machado de Assis's book is "Dom Casmurro"

[@vidapolitica8366]

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

[@Pantano63]

Can you provide a source that confirms Borges was a Machado reader?

[@mishababernathy7165]

Uhhh I love this book too!!!! I read it when I was in México...

[@carlosc8064]

O mais triste é que 99% dos comentários são de brasileiros... ou seja Machado de Assis continua desconhecido para o resto do mundo. Se tivesse nascido nos EUA ou em algum pais da Europa seria tão conhecido como Hemingway, Kafka ou Victor Hugo.

[@simdom2557]

Man I read that book because of this video I am forever grateful ❤❤❤

[@Gabrielcezar94]

Yessss! He's one of our greatest writers!! Love Dom Casmurro as well. 🇧🇷

[@jabolko]

I love the sound of your leather jacket while you are talking and reading 😀 Thanks for another great review 😊

[@jnobrega_9802]

I felt the same way 😊

[@Libertariun]

For all you rebels without a cause

[@heinzneto2121]

Cara, a tradução do título para inglês é muito boa

[@ErickSoares3]

Há duas traduções: Epitaph of a Small Winner e Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

[@marcosvalium2712]

achei uma BOSTA

[@roxanaalhadas1137]

Mas a caveira da capa, é uma péssima referência. Detestei.

[@marcosvalium2712]

@@roxanaalhadas1137 o título tbm achei horrível, parece tentar dar um ar otimista ao livro, que disso não tem nada

[@roxanaalhadas1137]

@@marcosvalium2712 por esse lado, parece que o título tem a ironia de Machado.

[@chernobylAlimentos]

"The Human Being is a delayed corpse." - Fernando Pessoa

[@TeamDacota]

most Brazilians don't recognize the great and terrific Brazilian's literature. Young people don't read the classics, that's all. I talk as a Brazilian. About 70% of the Brazilians don't read at all. that's sad, but true. books are so expensive, bc they don't care about it.

[@alvarocostaalves]

Nao seja tão negativo, sou um adolescente e conheço varias pessoas que gostam de classicos, nem é uma coisa tão rara. E livros em geral são bem famosos hoje em dia

[@fbg5678]

Você encontra esses clássicos de graça na internet. Por exemplo no site do MEC para o Machado de Assis: machado.mec.gov.br/

[@nicduynstee2171]

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

[@woolthot57]

Nic Duynstee me too omg!! i’m reading a heart so white now & loving it. maybe this will be next...

[@csansolo]

That is classic. You should try to read Brazilian's James Joyce, Guimaraes Rosa.

[@chdh5875]

I don't know if there is any GR book translated into English .... I would like to see it because it seems like a difficult task

[@sidhspinel]

@@chdh5875 Grande Sertão Veredas, translated as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

[@sarahmvaz6772]

James Joyce brazilian?

[@luizcadu]

@@chdh5875 Not only there is, but also I've seen it in many lists of "greatest books of all time". Apparently, the international literary critics consider it the best Brazilian book of all time.

[@chdh5875]

@@luizcadu are you referring to Grande Sertão Veredas or Memórias Póstumas? I think Guimarães Rosa is great, but Machado de Assis is truly classic, due to its timelessness, at any moment of your life that you read it, acquires new meanings, besides Machado being considered a Brazilian Shakespeare, by setting the standard of Brazilian language. P.S. Unfortunately, both must be rolling over in their graves nowadays...

[@cristina-vv6fw]

leia outra pérola dele chamada “dom casmurro” ❤️

[@brunoromiti7708]

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 👏👏👏

[@fvmarrafon]

You definitely have to read the other book from Machado de Assis, called Dom Casmurro. Be ready to be in doubt for the rest of your life.

[@victorrsouz]

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.

[@samuelfreitas687]

Machado sempre estará entre as 100 maiores obras mundiais obrigatórias para leitura

[@alissonsantana4968]

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!

[@sponsamortis8656]

I read the book and it was amazing. Thank you for introducing this book to me.

[@nos_a_sos]

Vocês já ouviram falar de João Guimarães Rosa ou do seu romance "Grande Sertão: Veredas"?

[@BrunoS1917]

You and Machado!!! Im so happy. Proud Brazilian here hehehe

[@stefanionescuambrosie6814]

I think Osamu Dazai's "No Longer Human" would be right up your alley! Pretty dark book too

[@guilhermearaujo5868]

The life happens and we just die, it's quite a common theme in Machado de Assis work.

[@windiva]

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

[@priscilalandim5214]

Have you ever produced a video about Guimarães Rosa? I love Machado but Guimarães is so amazing. There is a very known literature Brazilian school called "Sertanistas", authors who have produced realistics descriptions of Sertão and people who live at sertão.

[@donimor]

...read Grande sertão ,Veredas by Guimarães Rosa...thre's one British version ...in fact there's a new translation by Alison Etrekin from Austrália..

[@keilafernandes396]

I'm so happy to see you talking about Machado de Assis. Brazilian literature is amazing. We have great writers here. Thanks for this review.

[@valeriataylor8337]

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!!

[@nos_a_sos]

"2 Por isso eu louvei os que já morreram, mais do que os que vivem ainda. / 3 E melhor que uns e outros é aquele que ainda não é; que não viu as más obras que se fazem debaixo do sol. / 7 Outra vez me voltei, e vi vaidade debaixo do sol." (Eclesiastes 4) Se as verdades que os escritores de hoje escrevem já eram escritas cem anos atrás, as verdades que os escritores de cem anos atrás escreviam já não eram escritas séculos, milênios antes? Verdades não são eternas, atemporais?

[@esperthebard]

"For most of us, nothing really happens, we all just sort of die." This is a negative and nihilistic perspective, and also incorrect. Each person is connected to hundreds, probably thousands of other people. Our actions, attitudes, and decisions impact everyone to whom we are connected. Deeds and words have real power. What you do, what you say, and HOW you do and say things has an actual effect in the world. Even if you do not have great financial success or high social status, you can still improve the trajectory of so many others' lives. Likewise, you can also misguide or harm the lives of a great number of people. Existence contains suffering, it's the price we pay for being alive, and in order to persevere in the face of continual hardships, we have to bind ourselves to meaning-hopefully the highest form of meaning we can find. Otherwise, if we give in to cynicism or pessimism, we drag ourselves and everyone else down a bit more. I respect you for using critical thinking in this book review, and the book itself is truly a work of art, but I disagree with your statement that the vast majority of people essentially lead meaningless lives.

[@CanalCryptobros]

Epitaph of a small winner? The original title “The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas” is way better

[@julia_condor]

we have such a rich literature, i’m glad to see someone appreciating it. if you allow me, i would like to indicate some books to you: O Cortiço, Vidas Secas, Grande Sertão: Veredas. you won’t regret it

[@isaaccardo5o]

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!

[@paulonetto9652]

I think that sometimes the translation of book titles leaves part of the meaning behind. In this case, the portuguese title in English translates to: "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas". It emphasizes a lot better the fact that the story is about a dead man recollecting what happened in his life.

[@edwinduval5613]

Acho que deve ser mais fácil entender os livros do Machado de Assis na versão em Inglês

[@augustodutra3839]

Concordo, principalmente para nós brasileiros.

[@euclidestube]

I don't know how I end up here, but I'm glad I did. Nice and fun review. Great work.

[@guilhermeramos1321]

you should give Jorge Amado a shot, maybe captains of the sands

[@hey-fv2gg]

Guilherme Ramos yess One of my favourites

[@julia_condor]

DEFINITELY

[@pliskin101]

@R G Nah, he's pretty good

[@julia_condor]

R G and you’re a serious literary critic?

[@guilhermeramos1321]

@R G im getting out of college right now, having studied mainly literature i can say that a lot o people puts him on a certain standart, of course some of his writing are just propaganda.. but c'mon.. he has a lot of good books.

[@furtado704]

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.

[@NOPE.S.P.]

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.