Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 – 1908) was a writer considered by many critics, scholars, writers, and readers to be the greatest name in Brazilian literature. Machado de Assis left a very extensive body of work, the result of half a century of literary labor, which includes plays, poetry, prologues, critiques, speeches, more than two hundred short stories, and several novels. ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas’ (1881) is a first-person narrative considered Machado de Assis's masterpiece. The novel, extremely daring for its time, is framed as the memoirs of a character, Brás Cubas, who writes after his death. The dedication at the beginning of the book already anticipates the humor and fine irony present throughout: ‘To the worm that first gnawed at the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these posthumous memoirs.’
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Joaquim Machado de Assis was born on June 21, 1839, in Morro do Livramento, one of the hills surrounding Rio de Janeiro, which is now a favela area extremely dangerous and unpleasant to walk through due to its paths of misery and violence.
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