Books like the posthumous memoirs of bras cubas

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas(Portuguese:Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas, modern spellingMemórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas), often subtitled asthe Epitaph of a Small Winner, is a novel by the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

Published in 1881, the novel has a unique style of short, erratic chapters shifting in tone and style. Instead of the clear and logical construction of a normal nineteenth-century realist novel, the novel makes use of surreal devices of metaphor and playful narrative construction. It is considered the first romance of the realist movement in Brazil.

The novel is narrated by the dead protagonist Brás Cubas, who tells his own life story from beyond the grave, noting his mistakes and failed romances.