The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Summary & Analysis
Pick one section: in each one, you get a summary of what happens, followed by the passages with analysis.
- Chapters I to IXDeath, plaster, and delirium
- Chapters X to XVIChildhood and Marcela
- Chapters XVII to XXIVCoimbra and His Mother's Death
- Chapters XXV to XXXVIITijuca, The Black Butterfly, and Eugênia
- Chapters XXXVIII to XLIXVirgília Lost, the Death of His Father, and the Inheritance
- Chapters L to LXIIIVirgília Married and the "Let's Flee!"
- Chapters LXIV to LXXVIThe Little House, the Penis, and Dona Plácida
- Chapters LXXVII to LXXXVIIThe Presidency and the Mountaintop
- Chapters LXXXVIII to CViegas, Quincas Borba and the Anonymous Letter
- Chapters CI to CXVIThe Wall, the Weld, and the Old Leaves
- Chapters CXVII to CXXXVIHumanitism, Nhã-loló and Fifty Years
- Chapters CXXXVII to CLXThe Barretina, the Ministry, and the Negatives