Private Affairs, Public Office: Reading the Body of Virgília in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
As Machado de Assis’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) reflects on the life of a single man, two dominant forces emerge within the narrative: Brás Cubas’s desire for a family and his quest for political office. These parallel efforts coincide in the form of the political wife, the woman...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/38983 |