Talk:The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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The posthumous diaries of Bras Cubas, know in English as the Epitaph of a Small Winner, is a novel so far ahead of its time as to suprise many a reader, who, expecting the mannered and rational realism of a nineteenth century social satire, finds employed elegant and surreal devices of metaphor and construction such as might have please a magical realist of the twentieth century, and the witty narrative self-conciousness of a diciple of Nabakov.

The narrator inhabits a ominsicient but inert death, from which, with geat irony and humour, but not a little tenderness, he looks back upon his life, exposing the arbitrary and the ridiculous in a climate he describes as suitable for "The alarmingly rapid growth of ideas". His urbane and conversational style will amuse the reader, his exposition of the mores, caprices and pretensions of late nineteenth century Brazilian society will convince the reader that suprisingly little has changed, for all of the passage of a century and several thousand miles.

And it may be worth further encouraging any tempted by the above by pointing out that you are unlikely to survive more than a couple of sentences without a deep belly laugh, and an accompanying, satisfying, jolt of neurons stimulated by the elegant and unexpected combination of ridiculous ideas and the resultant sense of a sudden, epiphanic glimpse of the absurd truth.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.143.240.33 (talk) 16:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 17 June 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 17:39, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas → The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas – The title should include the á. Redirect already exists in the wrong direction. Brad (talk) 05:32, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

• Support per nomination. New English-language editions are indeed using the accent. However, since a longtime previous English-language title of this work has been Epitaph of a Small Winner, if consensus skews towards using that as this article's main title header, I would also support a move to Epitaph of a Small Winner. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 05:13, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.