@@DryBooks eu estou no ensino medio... mas também gosto de alguns, gosto muito de julio Verne, estou acabando a obra completa de Sherlock Holmes, mas ainda n encontrei um favorito n
Yay! I’ve read Machado de Assis when I was a teenager. I helped the nun in my school library and read everything I could get my hands on. He is a very versatile author and he was always my favorite and The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas was my favorite book from him. My second favorite is The Alienist(novella). It’s a satire. I’m Brazilian and I can say that one strong characteristic of Brazilians is to use humor to discuss and talk about serious subjects. We strongly believe in “laugh, so you don’t cry.”
Hey Merphy, i'm a brazilian and i'm very happy that you liked Machado de Assis, he is one of my favorite authors of all time. If you want to read more i recommend Quincas Borba. Quincas Borbas is similar in some ways to Brás Cubas but a little more "realistic". I'm sure a lot of other Brazilians already recomend Dom Casmurro so i think there's no need to me to do it. Thanks for being a amazing person i love your channel
Quincas Borba (Joaquim Borba dos Santos[1]) is the main character of the book Quincas Borba by writer Machado de Assis. He was born in 1886, the "mad philosopher of Barbacena" and advisor to Brás Cubas, with whom he was a childhood friend. I take this piece of from wiki and and there is a connection between the two books
Machado de Assis is, in my opinion, the best brazilian author so far. All of his books are worth reading! It's also weirdly nice seeing people from abroad reading our authors
It's really cool to see you reviewing such a classic from my country! I also highly recommend the brazilian author Graciliano Ramos, especially his books "Angústia" (my favorite) and "Barren Lives"
I don't really have the habit of reading books, but I do love story telling (I mostly engage with games, movies and tv shows) and I found your channel a while back. All of that being said, I am a brazillian seeing brazillian stuff discussed from outside people, so... obligatory engagement...
Also, there's a pretty nice movie adaption of Bras Cubas, and I do recommend it, although I'm not entirely sure if there are subs available, but it translates the novel pretty well! Dom Casmurro is another very intriguing read of Machado's, although less comical and more dramatic, I'd say. But Machado's work is immense and very much worth the reading, he was an amazing man! I'm so glad to see more of Brazilian literature making its way to international readers ❣️ I'd say, The Slum by Aluísio de Azevedo is in similar vein, as it explores a lot of social issues with some humourous happenings, if you ever desire another rec! Anyways, oof, sorry for the long comment!! Great video as always, hope you and the family are well. Stay safe! ✨
your fan and book lover from Zambia. read a lot of books from your recommendation. Already loved books but my love for fantasy increased exponentially when i started watching your videos.
Aaaaaaaaahhhh hahahahaha I remember suggesting Bras Cubas to you in a video where you asked for diverse recs over a year ago and you answered me saying that you had added it to your TBR. I was sure you’d forgotten about it by now. I’M SO EXCITED OMG (I’ll comment again after I watch the video lol)
You already had summoned me because of one piece, and now you do it again, bring Machado de Assis and Brazillian books. Edit: just now i noticed this is a 3 years old video lol. UA-cam algorithm works in a strange way.
i actually own this book (in portuguese ofc) but haven't read it yet! does this make me a fake brazilian? maybe. if you're looking to read more from machado de assis, though, you should try 'dom casmurro', one of the most well known and loved novels in brazilian literature.
I can't believe I missed this video from you, Merphy! It is amazing! Machado de Assis is a true legend in Brazil. Such a fantastic author! I also love your videos, Merphy. Greetings from Brazil
Amazing!!! Machado is THE author of Brazilian Literature. His life was a story to be told. He managed to succeed in a time in which he would definitely be marginalized by his color. Only recently, Brazilians started to recognize him as a black author. I'm happy you enjoyed reading it. I have to read it again. If you want to read any other Brazilian author, I know that Clarice Lispector has also had some new translation in English. She is different from Machado de Assis, but also great. I've just found your channel and I really liked it.
Great video, thank you for reading Machado de Assis. His other books are very worth a read too! Always very blunt, dry humour while being a serious theme.
this book is so incredible, i love the irony and the sarcasm of the author, I recommend you to read Dom Casmurro and Quincas Borba, both are also masterpieces by machado de assis
It’s so sad that Bras Cubas in Brazil (along with Dom Casmurro and Quincas Borba) suffers from what I would describe as the “school mandatory book syndrome”, which to me describes the feeling of boredom you get as a child for reading things you get told are cultural zeitgeists as a kid and, because of that, after finishing the books you disregard them as a painful experience. Equivalents in the US for this “syndrome” I believe are Lord of The Flies, Catcher in The Rye, Jane Eyre, among others. Just like these books doesn’t deserve this reputation in the US, Machado’s books also don’t deserve this reputation in Brazil, because the guy was a genius, plain and simple. These books by him that I mentioned are AMAZING, and I’ve read all of them in school and hated them back then. But as an adult, after rereading them I fell in love with them.
Before I forget. If you loved Machado de Assis's good humor, I suggest reading the short story "The Alienist". It's short, even shorter than Bras Cubas and tells the story of Simão Bacamarte, an Alienist (doctor for the insane) who returns to his hometown of Itaguai to found an asylum. From then on it becomes a surreal story with ridiculous and funny situations like the doctor and a madman who thinks he is a doctor talking to each other to find out who the real madman is. It's pure Machado de Assis playing with reality and making us laugh at it.
I have been wanting to get into classics so I think the Bras Cubase book will be a good place to start. It sounds really unique and I can already tell I'll really like it. However because of the pandemic where I live everything has been shut down, so I'll have to wait a WHILE before I get my hands on that book😅
just a heads up that it was written in 1881 so it's not the easiest place to start with classics. The language takes some getting used to - but I still highly recommend it!
Woooow the Brazilians really came out in the comments. I love it 😍 The way you talk about how Bras Cubas is written reminds me of Sanderson's Alcatraz series. Alcatraz constantly breaks the fourth wall and does silly thinks like 'paste the first page of pride and prejudice here because that'd be more interesting'.
You should totally read more brazilian classic litterature. I personally reccomend Clarice Lispector, she would really fit your taste I think. Also I love Captains of Sand by Jorge Amado and The Slum by Aluísio Azevedo
I'm Brazilian and love this book, so glad you liked it, really fun review! You should try to read Dom Casmurro, another classic by the same author, it's amazing too. Love your channel ❤️
Machado is a monument! I loved this video, really great comments. I recommend you to go after another of Machado's great books: "Dom Casmurro", as well as a short story called "The Alienist" (Many of his great things are Short Stories). Among his other novels i also speak of: "Quincas Borba", "Esaú e Jacó" and "Memorial De Aires" (Aires Memorial) This one is his last book, published in the year of his death, 1908, and is one of my favourites of him. I'm not sure about the translations, so hahahah Great video, once again! Big Hug from Rio ✌🏾🇧🇷
I am not from Brazil nor can talk Portuguese but,the novel is actually considered a comedy or a romance because of its humorous use of the Portuguese language. It's kind of awful it got lost in translation though:(. Can you try reading the world as will and representation by Arthur Schopenhauer It's a philosophical work that influenced the novel and many many other writers and artists such as Beckett and Borges, Proust and leo toltsey. And even Einstein. It's a pessimistic book but a good one.
Hello from Brazil! This book first lines, the dedication, are awesome, right? My favorite Brazilian book and author. Another book that is amazing is "Dom Casmurro", another genre, but is also great!
I don't know how to ask this-- so I'll just ask it. I'm working on my own book and Im looking for recommendations for certain a genres to help me. Merphy, you read a lot of books, what do you think about making a series based on that? Like for example: _Best examples for action books_ Or _This how you write a romance, books part1_ Or _These books can teach you a lot about how to develop a 3 dimensional character_
I love this! Like, this looks it's a new fixture I like! So, should I read any of those. I mostly read political-manifesto like fiction mixed with middle grade (polar opposites), sow how do you exactly feel? - saad aman
Fyi: Machado de Assis has finally been recognised as a black person. Brazilians didn’t know until recent that he is black. That’s because he was too intelligent and he also had government position. Even his photos displayed a white man...now the truth has come out - he is black...
I was forced (yes, that's the word) to read The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and some other Machado de Assis books at school (I'm from Brazil) and OH MY GOD I HATED IT SO MUCH. I actually came here expecting you to say bad things about the book hahaha
As a Brazilian in the US I'm so happy to see that the brilliancy of Brazilian authors is being discovered by Americans! You should read something by Clarice Lispector, most of her work is considered a 20th century classic.
I loved how you corrected yourself every single time you said posthumous wrong. Also, i like how his book seems to be about the dreadful writing process. “I planned to write a masterpiece or something close to it, but no matter what I did, I hated it. Instead, I decided to give you, my (sarcastic) dear reader my annotations and opinions instead. My publisher does not have a choice but to publish this ridiculous nonsense. It was in our deal for me to wrote one last book. Here it is. Have at it.”
Hi, brazilian here! Machado de Assis is one of the greatest if not the greatest brazilian writer of all times. I’m really happy you read and enjoyed his book. If anyone wants to read more of his work I recommend Dom Casmurro and Quincas Borba.
I guess a lot of people will or already have recommended, but Machado de Assis' other book Dom Casmurro is a HUGE influence on every type of Brazilian media (books, movies, soap operas). The character Capitu is maybe the most well known character in Brazilian literature, so if you enjoyed this one, I definitely recommend Dom Casmurro as well! That being said, I have only read these books for school and I always thought that his pompous and pretentious writing were because he was a pompous and pretentious person haha so it's cool to see a different point of view, it made me want to reread his books to see if I'd see them differently without having to study them for school. Awesome review, and awesome to see people reading Brazilian books 😊😊
As someone that goes to high school in Brazil, it makes me mad they never tried to get us interested in this book, I’ve been told many times to read it because it’s “necessary” but no teacher ever gave such a good recommendation to me, thanks merphy I might go for it now
As someone who had to read it under a bad teacher, I can safely say you're better off enjoying it on your own. I used to read 3 to 5 books a month besides the school mandatory ones, and this is the only one I never finished. That's how bad my teacher was.
@@merphynapier42 if you liked posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas then you might like this story from Machado de assis( it isn't eccentric as this one but it still has a litlle of the dark and skeptical humor characteristic of the author) O espelho(the mirror)- really good short story about pride and how we let insignificant things define our personality and life oh, and did you know there's a side story of Posthumus Memoirs of Bras Cubas called Quincas Borbas? i still didn't read it but people said it's really good and funny like Bras Cubas!
oh, Dom Casmurro i haven't read yet but people told me it's great the "thriller" given from the unreliable first narrator over a suspected betrayal! Machado really innovated with this way of storytelling
As someone who wants to be a translator, I love watching people talk about translated books on UA-cam. I've read Bras Cubas and agree that it's very funny, and a lot of that is due to the hard work the translator put in to recreate this novel in English (translating humor is super hard). Go Flora Thomson-DeVeaux!
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas sounds really interesting. I set a goal for myself this year to read more translated books, definitely adding that one to the list!
As a Brazilian reader who also talks about books on UA-cam, let me just say: it's awesome to see Brazilian novels getting more and more popular around the globe. We are known as the land of soccer, carnival and corruption, but there much more to see down here. Thank you, Merphy, for sharing your thoughts :)
Hey Merphy! I'm very happy to see a review of a Brazilian book in your channel, and I'm so glad you liked it. I would love to see a review of a book from a portuguese author one day! I recommend "Blindness" from José Saramago. Love your videos, I'm currently reading "The Lies Of Locke Lamora" because of you. Keep up the amazing work!
Murphy isn't really fond of books with weird formating, right? If I remenber correctly "Blindness" has no quotation marks to show when characters are speaking. I remember that annoyed me to no end when I read that book.
Omg YES, Machado is amazing, this is def my favorite book of his, and it makes me glad that you read it!! Also, there's this one character in posthumous memoirs, Quincas Borba, 'the crazy philosopher of Barbacena', that has a book of his own, it's a more toned down book, as it is a third person narrator and it digs REALLY deep in philosophical stuff and criticizes the Brazilian upper class a lot. It's called "Quincas Borba", and it's an incredible incredible book, kind of in the other end of Machado's spectrum, which just goes to show his versatility and how amazing this author can be, I think you'd like it!
Machado de Assis is truly great, i´m very glad tha you like it. the protagonist and at the same time author is pessimist an ironic and this make the narrative quite funny. And yes it is satire about life itself. we find in the book the childhood of the author, his firt love delusions, a affair a new filosofiy,(the humanitism), all those things are portrait with irony what makes all to much funny. If you like it this book you would like Dom Casmurro his other great master piece.
Hey, Merphy, did you know Machado de Assis wrote another book kind of "in the same universe" as Bras Cubas? Idk if you remember, but in the book there is a character called Quincas Borba, and there is a book with this exact title, about him. Also worth mentioning, the main character of the book you read was called Bras Cubas because Brazil (in Portuguese Brasil with an S) and Cuba were the last two countries in the world to legally end slavery
Nice to see you enjoy the Memoirs! Machado has a novella called The Alienist (The Psychiatrist, in some editions) that's also hilarious and I think you'd enjoy a lot.
The ironies, the sarcasm, the breaking of the fourth wall that he uses in some of his books. Machado was a black man, stutterer and epileptic in a very prejudiced and backward society. I wonder how this shaped his sense of humor that still works today.
This is why I love you, Merphy, above other reviewers I've watched--your willingness to try anything, regardless of genre. You have brought many wonderful books into my life which I probably would not have read but for you. Thanks a million.
The City Below the Cloud is a book I enjoyed immensely. It is hard to discuss without spoiling, but I would say I did not see something coming about midway through and it shocked me made me so much more intrigued because I would argue that this book is unique in that aspect.
@@wingracer1614 Great, I hope you enjoy it! It's no problem, I can understand everyone being super excited about Merphy reviewing one of their favorites. And I guess it brings more people to the video, which is good. :D
I’ve been binging your videos for a week, just bought about 11 books you recommended (currently reading Mistborn), now you’re talking about a Brazilian author? Be still my heart ♥️ Saw some people recommending other books by Machado, my favorite is The Alienist!
I am from Brazil and it is so good to see Brazilian classics being read by people from other countries!
I agree. But I also hate that book so much hahaha
Tipo, sério, o ódio q eu tenho por esse livro não ta escrito kkkkk
@@DryBooks kkkkkk
Tenho q admitir que tenho um certo probleminha com clássicos também kkkk
@@guilhermefigueiredo3936 kkkkk eu gosto de alguns. Adoro Senhora. Mas Machado de Assis em geral foi mto forçado no ensino medio pra eu gostar
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@@DryBooks eu estou no ensino medio... mas também gosto de alguns, gosto muito de julio Verne, estou acabando a obra completa de Sherlock Holmes, mas ainda n encontrei um favorito n
There's a rule - you cannot have a video with a Brazilian in it and not attract every Brazilian on UA-cam!
This Brazilian follower appreciates the representation! It’s almost like representation makes us feel included or something, u know? 🤣
As a Brazilian, I'm kind of ashamed that I've never read Machado de Assis before. It's been on my TBR since the 3rd grade
Não acredito que a Merphy leu Macahado de Assis kkkkkkkkk muito foda cara
E por que não? É um ótimo clássico e também muito famoso. Deixa de ser baba-ovo
Real cara kkkkkkk
@@victorporto8719 Não tinha visto sua mensagem até agora mas agora que vi queria dizer: Beleza cara, você é foda!
Yay! I’ve read Machado de Assis when I was a teenager. I helped the nun in my school library and read everything I could get my hands on. He is a very versatile author and he was always my favorite and The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas was my favorite book from him. My second favorite is The Alienist(novella). It’s a satire. I’m Brazilian and I can say that one strong characteristic of Brazilians is to use humor to discuss and talk about serious subjects. We strongly believe in “laugh, so you don’t cry.”
Hey Merphy, i'm a brazilian and i'm very happy that you liked Machado de Assis, he is one of my favorite authors of all time. If you want to read more i recommend Quincas Borba. Quincas Borbas is similar in some ways to Brás Cubas but a little more "realistic". I'm sure a lot of other Brazilians already recomend Dom Casmurro so i think there's no need to me to do it. Thanks for being a amazing person i love your channel
Quincas Borba (Joaquim Borba dos Santos[1]) is the main character of the book Quincas Borba by writer Machado de Assis. He was born in 1886, the "mad philosopher of Barbacena" and advisor to Brás Cubas, with whom he was a childhood friend. I take this piece of from wiki and and there is a connection between the two books
I appreciated you giving a fine review of a brazilian book, Merphy.
Machado de Assis is, in my opinion, the best brazilian author so far. All of his books are worth reading! It's also weirdly nice seeing people from abroad reading our authors
Not the best Brazilian just. The best American author and try to change my mind •́ ‿ ,•̀
Nice to see that you read a Brazilian book!
It's really cool to see you reviewing such a classic from my country! I also highly recommend the brazilian author Graciliano Ramos, especially his books "Angústia" (my favorite) and "Barren Lives"
I don't really have the habit of reading books, but I do love story telling (I mostly engage with games, movies and tv shows) and I found your channel a while back. All of that being said, I am a brazillian seeing brazillian stuff discussed from outside people, so... obligatory engagement...
Also, there's a pretty nice movie adaption of Bras Cubas, and I do recommend it, although I'm not entirely sure if there are subs available, but it translates the novel pretty well! Dom Casmurro is another very intriguing read of Machado's, although less comical and more dramatic, I'd say. But Machado's work is immense and very much worth the reading, he was an amazing man! I'm so glad to see more of Brazilian literature making its way to international readers ❣️ I'd say, The Slum by Aluísio de Azevedo is in similar vein, as it explores a lot of social issues with some humourous happenings, if you ever desire another rec! Anyways, oof, sorry for the long comment!! Great video as always, hope you and the family are well. Stay safe! ✨
your fan and book lover from Zambia.
read a lot of books from your recommendation. Already loved books but my love for fantasy increased exponentially when i started watching your videos.
Aaaaaaaaahhhh
hahahahaha
I remember suggesting Bras Cubas to you in a video where you asked for diverse recs over a year ago and you answered me saying that you had added it to your TBR. I was sure you’d forgotten about it by now. I’M SO EXCITED OMG
(I’ll comment again after I watch the video lol)
You already had summoned me because of one piece, and now you do it again, bring Machado de Assis and Brazillian books.
Edit: just now i noticed this is a 3 years old video lol. UA-cam algorithm works in a strange way.
Happens exactly the same for me😂
i actually own this book (in portuguese ofc) but haven't read it yet! does this make me a fake brazilian? maybe. if you're looking to read more from machado de assis, though, you should try 'dom casmurro', one of the most well known and loved novels in brazilian literature.
Glad you liked some Machado! I recommend his short stories as well, if you can get a hand on them!
I can't believe I missed this video from you, Merphy! It is amazing! Machado de Assis is a true legend in Brazil. Such a fantastic author! I also love your videos, Merphy. Greetings from Brazil
Amazing!!! Machado is THE author of Brazilian Literature. His life was a story to be told. He managed to succeed in a time in which he would definitely be marginalized by his color. Only recently, Brazilians started to recognize him as a black author. I'm happy you enjoyed reading it. I have to read it again.
If you want to read any other Brazilian author, I know that Clarice Lispector has also had some new translation in English. She is different from Machado de Assis, but also great.
I've just found your channel and I really liked it.
Bras cubas is a revelation! Insanely funny and effortlessly witty! I love it
I read a few chapters of Bras Cubas but for some reason never continue, now I want to start it again because I also find the humor really funny
yay, as a Brazilian Author (to be published soon), to see one of my favorties booktubers review this masterpiece is amazing!
Great video, thank you for reading Machado de Assis. His other books are very worth a read too! Always very blunt, dry humour while being a serious theme.
Oh my golly! I'm brazilian and Machado is one of my favorite authors. So good see you talking!
PLEASE read Dom Casmurro, so we can discuss the biggest mistery in the brazillian literature (btw I love your videos)
Hey, read Clarice Lispector too, she was also an amazing writer!
this book is so incredible, i love the irony and the sarcasm of the author, I recommend you to read Dom Casmurro and Quincas Borba, both are also masterpieces by machado de assis
It’s so sad that Bras Cubas in Brazil (along with Dom Casmurro and Quincas Borba) suffers from what I would describe as the “school mandatory book syndrome”, which to me describes the feeling of boredom you get as a child for reading things you get told are cultural zeitgeists as a kid and, because of that, after finishing the books you disregard them as a painful experience. Equivalents in the US for this “syndrome” I believe are Lord of The Flies, Catcher in The Rye, Jane Eyre, among others.
Just like these books doesn’t deserve this reputation in the US, Machado’s books also don’t deserve this reputation in Brazil, because the guy was a genius, plain and simple. These books by him that I mentioned are AMAZING, and I’ve read all of them in school and hated them back then. But as an adult, after rereading them I fell in love with them.
Before I forget. If you loved Machado de Assis's good humor, I suggest reading the short story "The Alienist". It's short, even shorter than Bras Cubas and tells the story of Simão Bacamarte, an Alienist (doctor for the insane) who returns to his hometown of Itaguai to found an asylum. From then on it becomes a surreal story with ridiculous and funny situations like the doctor and a madman who thinks he is a doctor talking to each other to find out who the real madman is. It's pure Machado de Assis playing with reality and making us laugh at it.
I have been wanting to get into classics so I think the Bras Cubase book will be a good place to start. It sounds really unique and I can already tell I'll really like it. However because of the pandemic where I live everything has been shut down, so I'll have to wait a WHILE before I get my hands on that book😅
just a heads up that it was written in 1881 so it's not the easiest place to start with classics. The language takes some getting used to - but I still highly recommend it!
Woooow the Brazilians really came out in the comments. I love it 😍
The way you talk about how Bras Cubas is written reminds me of Sanderson's Alcatraz series. Alcatraz constantly breaks the fourth wall and does silly thinks like 'paste the first page of pride and prejudice here because that'd be more interesting'.
You should totally read more brazilian classic litterature. I personally reccomend Clarice Lispector, she would really fit your taste I think. Also I love Captains of Sand by Jorge Amado and The Slum by Aluísio Azevedo
i saw brás cubas and had to stop everything i was doing to watch the video
Same here! hahahah
Brazillian fan here! Loved your review! ♥️
I'm Brazilian and love this book, so glad you liked it, really fun review! You should try to read Dom Casmurro, another classic by the same author, it's amazing too.
Love your channel ❤️
Machado is a monument! I loved this video, really great comments.
I recommend you to go after another of Machado's great books: "Dom Casmurro", as well as a short story called "The Alienist" (Many of his great things are Short Stories).
Among his other novels i also speak of: "Quincas Borba", "Esaú e Jacó" and "Memorial De Aires" (Aires Memorial) This one is his last book, published in the year of his death, 1908, and is one of my favourites of him.
I'm not sure about the translations, so hahahah
Great video, once again!
Big Hug from Rio ✌🏾🇧🇷
I am not from Brazil nor can talk Portuguese but,the novel is actually considered a comedy or a romance because of its humorous use of the Portuguese language.
It's kind of awful it got lost in translation though:(.
Can you try reading the world as will and representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
It's a philosophical work that influenced the novel and many many other writers and artists such as Beckett and Borges, Proust and leo toltsey.
And even Einstein.
It's a pessimistic book but a good one.
Hello from Brazil! This book first lines, the dedication, are awesome, right?
My favorite Brazilian book and author. Another book that is amazing is "Dom Casmurro", another genre, but is also great!
Eu tô surtando
Yay! A new video. ^-^
I don't know how to ask this-- so I'll just ask it. I'm working on my own book and Im looking for recommendations for certain a genres to help me.
Merphy, you read a lot of books, what do you think about making a series based on that? Like for example: _Best examples for action books_ Or _This how you write a romance, books part1_ Or _These books can teach you a lot about how to develop a 3 dimensional character_
READ DOM CASMURRO NEXT!!! you will not regret it
Nowadays Brazil is divorcing from brother usa and interacting with china and Rússia! Unfortunatelly !!!
I love this! Like, this looks it's a new fixture I like! So, should I read any of those. I mostly read political-manifesto like fiction mixed with middle grade (polar opposites), sow how do you exactly feel? - saad aman
Please, add DOM CASMURRO to your list! It's also from Machado de Assis and it's got an unreliable narrator and these should be reasons enough! ♡
Brazil😎😎😎😎😎
Fyi: Machado de Assis has finally been recognised as a black person.
Brazilians didn’t know until recent that he is black. That’s because he was too intelligent and he also had government position. Even his photos displayed a white man...now the truth has come out - he is black...
I've never been so early
I was forced (yes, that's the word) to read The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and some other Machado de Assis books at school (I'm from Brazil) and OH MY GOD I HATED IT SO MUCH. I actually came here expecting you to say bad things about the book hahaha
Hahaha! School can really ruin books for us. If you ever give it a second chance, I hope you enjoy it!
48th comment!!! 33 mins.
The amount of Brazilians spelling it as brazilians is too damn high XD
C'mon people!! It's like lesson 4 of book 1 in the English course.
Machado de Assis was an amazing writer for creating this work 😍
The brazillians have been summoned
ja to aqui
Vocês estão em todo lugar kkk @@heller8387
Se tem um minuto de um vídeo falando de algo sobre o Brasil, um sinal é mandado para todos os brasileiros kkkkkkkkkk
Aqui estamos nós!
Oloko meu
Let's see how long the comment section will stay quiet, without brazilian readers freaking out. Love your videos Merphy 💖
Brasileiro em silêncio?
Jamais
Hahahahah já chegamos
Ninguém consegue postar nada na internet falando qualquer coisa do Brasil sem os brasileiros virem causar kkkkkkkkk
I guess you didn't have to wait that long...
Não dá miga, falam de Machado nas gringa a gente vem hahahah
As a Brazilian in the US I'm so happy to see that the brilliancy of Brazilian authors is being discovered by Americans! You should read something by Clarice Lispector, most of her work is considered a 20th century classic.
já tô vendo que os comentários de hoje vão ser só brasileiros
O Brasileiro tem radar pra identificar grigo falando do Brasil🤭
Brasileiro tá em todo lugar, não tem jeito.
Eu acompanho ela faz tempo...
Eu acho q nunca me diverti tanto nos comentários de um vídeo
Sempre
I love how the humor in Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas still holds up amazingly, even though the book was published over a hundred years ago
That’s what it means to be a classic!
I loved how you corrected yourself every single time you said posthumous wrong.
Also, i like how his book seems to be about the dreadful writing process.
“I planned to write a masterpiece or something close to it, but no matter what I did, I hated it. Instead, I decided to give you, my (sarcastic) dear reader my annotations and opinions instead. My publisher does not have a choice but to publish this ridiculous nonsense. It was in our deal for me to wrote one last book. Here it is. Have at it.”
Hi, brazilian here! Machado de Assis is one of the greatest if not the greatest brazilian writer of all times. I’m really happy you read and enjoyed his book. If anyone wants to read more of his work I recommend Dom Casmurro and Quincas Borba.
Yes! Dom Casmurro is increbile!
Dom Casmurro has basically the biggest mystery/discussion in Brazilian literature
Posthumous sounds like me trying to write in my journal. "You know what? Just forget that last thing I just said it doesn't make any sense."
prepare for the brazilian comments
OMG MACHADO DE ASSIS YOU READ IT THAT'S AMAZING! I'm going to read the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas this month
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MERPHY READ MY FAVORITE BOOK AND I WAS NOT READY FOR IT. oh my God I'm not okay, as a Brazilian girl I'm not ready!!!!!!!
I guess a lot of people will or already have recommended, but Machado de Assis' other book Dom Casmurro is a HUGE influence on every type of Brazilian media (books, movies, soap operas). The character Capitu is maybe the most well known character in Brazilian literature, so if you enjoyed this one, I definitely recommend Dom Casmurro as well!
That being said, I have only read these books for school and I always thought that his pompous and pretentious writing were because he was a pompous and pretentious person haha so it's cool to see a different point of view, it made me want to reread his books to see if I'd see them differently without having to study them for school.
Awesome review, and awesome to see people reading Brazilian books 😊😊
As someone that goes to high school in Brazil, it makes me mad they never tried to get us interested in this book, I’ve been told many times to read it because it’s “necessary” but no teacher ever gave such a good recommendation to me, thanks merphy I might go for it now
I hope you enjoy it too!
As someone who had to read it under a bad teacher, I can safely say you're better off enjoying it on your own.
I used to read 3 to 5 books a month besides the school mandatory ones, and this is the only one I never finished. That's how bad my teacher was.
have you ever read dom casmurro? it's a brazilian classic, also from machado de assis
Not yet!
@@merphynapier42 if you liked posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas then you might like this story from Machado de assis( it isn't eccentric as this one but it still has a litlle of the dark and skeptical humor characteristic of the author)
O espelho(the mirror)- really good short story about pride and how we let insignificant things define our personality and life
oh, and did you know there's a side story of Posthumus Memoirs of Bras Cubas called Quincas Borbas? i still didn't read it but people said it's really good and funny like Bras Cubas!
oh, Dom Casmurro i haven't read yet but people told me it's great the "thriller" given from the unreliable first narrator over a suspected betrayal! Machado really innovated with this way of storytelling
As someone who wants to be a translator, I love watching people talk about translated books on UA-cam. I've read Bras Cubas and agree that it's very funny, and a lot of that is due to the hard work the translator put in to recreate this novel in English (translating humor is super hard). Go Flora Thomson-DeVeaux!
Been looking for this comment lmao, she’s great
Drinking game: Take a shot every time future Merphy corrects past Merphy's pronunciation of "posthumous".
As a brazilian who read it at high school, it's pretty nice seen non-brazilians reading and make so greats reviws!
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas sounds really interesting. I set a goal for myself this year to read more translated books, definitely adding that one to the list!
As a Brazilian who grew up in the US, you’ve totally convinced me to read The Posthumous Memoirs and connect more with my culture 😁😁
Machado de Assis is probably the greatest Brazilian autor, a world-class writer If I've ver seen one.
Its very good to see Machado de Assis recognized outside Brazil
deffintly adding the Bras Cubas book to the top of my tbr, sounds very interesting.
I recommend you other brazilian book, if you didn't read it already, called "The Slum" from Aluísio Azevedo, it's one of my favorite books ever! ❤
This book is RAD!
As a Brazilian reader who also talks about books on UA-cam, let me just say: it's awesome to see Brazilian novels getting more and more popular around the globe. We are known as the land of soccer, carnival and corruption, but there much more to see down here. Thank you, Merphy, for sharing your thoughts :)
Hey Merphy! I'm very happy to see a review of a Brazilian book in your channel, and I'm so glad you liked it. I would love to see a review of a book from a portuguese author one day! I recommend "Blindness" from José Saramago. Love your videos, I'm currently reading "The Lies Of Locke Lamora" because of you. Keep up the amazing work!
Murphy isn't really fond of books with weird formating, right? If I remenber correctly "Blindness" has no quotation marks to show when characters are speaking. I remember that annoyed me to no end when I read that book.
The earliest I have ever been to a video in my life😂
Didn't know Bras Cubas was from 1881! I'll probably read it soon. Thanks Merphy.
Google: that monument of information that still manages to tell me nothing 🤣
Omg YES, Machado is amazing, this is def my favorite book of his, and it makes me glad that you read it!! Also, there's this one character in posthumous memoirs, Quincas Borba, 'the crazy philosopher of Barbacena', that has a book of his own, it's a more toned down book, as it is a third person narrator and it digs REALLY deep in philosophical stuff and criticizes the Brazilian upper class a lot. It's called "Quincas Borba", and it's an incredible incredible book, kind of in the other end of Machado's spectrum, which just goes to show his versatility and how amazing this author can be, I think you'd like it!
Machado de Assis is truly great, i´m very glad tha you like it. the protagonist and at the same time author is pessimist an ironic and this make the narrative quite funny. And yes it is satire about life itself. we find in the book the childhood of the author, his firt love delusions, a affair a new filosofiy,(the humanitism), all those things are portrait with irony what makes all to much funny. If you like it this book you would like Dom Casmurro his other great master piece.
Hey, Merphy, did you know Machado de Assis wrote another book kind of "in the same universe" as Bras Cubas? Idk if you remember, but in the book there is a character called Quincas Borba, and there is a book with this exact title, about him. Also worth mentioning, the main character of the book you read was called Bras Cubas because Brazil (in Portuguese Brasil with an S) and Cuba were the last two countries in the world to legally end slavery
Wow thank you, I didn’t realize that!
@@merphynapier42 I think you would really like Quincas Borba! Machado makes great criticisms about greed, specially in wealthier classes from society
@anasagatio Where did you get that information? I coundn't find it anywhere on my search.
@@frank7411 my father is a literature teacher in Brazil
So glad that you read this. And liked. I read for school in Brazil as a teen and it is my favorite Brazilian book to this day after 20 years
Nice to see you enjoy the Memoirs! Machado has a novella called The Alienist (The Psychiatrist, in some editions) that's also hilarious and I think you'd enjoy a lot.
The ironies, the sarcasm, the breaking of the fourth wall that he uses in some of his books. Machado was a black man, stutterer and epileptic in a very prejudiced and backward society. I wonder how this shaped his sense of humor that still works today.
The correction clips! 😂
Merphy is such a cinnamon roll when she does this XD
Oh they continue to future video also!
This is why I love you, Merphy, above other reviewers I've watched--your willingness to try anything, regardless of genre. You have brought many wonderful books into my life which I probably would not have read but for you. Thanks a million.
The City Below the Cloud is a book I enjoyed immensely. It is hard to discuss without spoiling, but I would say I did not see something coming about midway through and it shocked me made me so much more intrigued because I would argue that this book is unique in that aspect.
I'm so glad you liked it! I wasn't originally planning on writing a sequel, but I'm starting to consider it. Maybe "The City Above the Cloud"
@@THX0785 Oh hey there. Going to check it out. It's kind of a shame that comments on your book are being buried by a Brazilian mob, LOL.
@@wingracer1614 Great, I hope you enjoy it! It's no problem, I can understand everyone being super excited about Merphy reviewing one of their favorites. And I guess it brings more people to the video, which is good. :D
Whaaaaaaaat?! You read a Brazilian book 😭😭😭 Maybe you could read Dom Casmurro next? ♡
girl I'm brazilian and trust me, if you go into brazilian literature you're never leaving
Another extremely good book is Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Bras Cubas is the real masterpiece! And Machado is the great Master!
Merphy falando do maior clássico já escrito no continente americano? Quem discorda pois que discorde aí na sua casa
E aí galera, Capitu traiu ou não traiu Bentinho?
Dae brasileiros
You have to try out Dom Casmurro. You have to
posthumous
I’ve been binging your videos for a week, just bought about 11 books you recommended (currently reading Mistborn), now you’re talking about a Brazilian author? Be still my heart ♥️ Saw some people recommending other books by Machado, my favorite is The Alienist!