/lit/ - Literature

Brazil.

Machado de Assis too.

Hey faggots, what you enjoy of brazilian literature in generals?

(sorry for english, i am brazilian and not know very of english language)

Paulo Coelho is shit, I know because I'm brazilian. Read some Machado as said before, Eca de Queiros, Fernando Pessoa are really good too.

Epitaph of a Small Winner, by Machado de Assis.

(also published under the title The Posthumous Memoirs of Braz Cubas)

The autobiography of an absolute nobody, who has lived an unremarkable life full of disappointments in love mostly, in mid-19th century Brazil. The only remarkable thing is that he decides to write his memoirs *after* he's dead.

And they're bleak and funny and pessimistic and frivolous and written in tiny chapters, like jokes strung together, or the tesserae of a mosaic....or anyway, it's way ahead of its time, since it was published in 1881. It's a book where you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing..."