Posthumous memories of Brás Cubas is a unique work within the framework of Brazilian literature: on the one hand it breaks with the formulas of Romanticism and, on the other, anticipating resources from the avant-garde and discoveries of psychoanalysis, it is extremely daring in its ironic and scathing exhibition of the privileges of the Carioca elite of the time.

Published in a booklet in 1880 and as a book in 1881, the novel presents the peculiarity of being told by a deceased. By narrating his life from the hereafter, Brás Cubas, free of social uses and far from the poisoned faults of the world, can confess all the evil he did to others and himself, as well as reveal and analyze the hypocrisy of those with whom he lived, without having to suffer any judgment for it.

These peculiar memories from the aftermath, a text that at the time was a real point and apart in his country for his experimentalism and originality, constitute an opportunity to meet and enjoy one of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature and to approach such an author valuable and really as little known in these parts as Machado de Assis.