The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás CubasBe aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man, writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas is the story of an