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Index
Cover
Introduction
Author’s Preface to the Third Edition
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
CHAPTER I / Death of the author
CHAPTER II / The poultice
CHAPTER III / Genealogy
CHAPTER IV / The idée fixe
CHAPTER V / In which a lady’s ear appears
CHAPTER VI / Chimène, que l’eût dit? Rodrigue, qui l’eût cru?¶
CHAPTER VII / The delirium
CHAPTER VIII / Reason versus folly
CHAPTER IX / Transition
CHAPTER X / On that day
CHAPTER XI / The child is father of the man
CHAPTER XII / An episode from 1814
CHAPTER XIII / A leap
CHAPTER XIV / My first kiss
CHAPTER XV / Marcela
CHAPTER XVI / An immoral thought
CHAPTER XVII / About the trapeze and other things
CHAPTER XVIII / Vision in the corridor
CHAPTER XIX / On board
CHAPTER XX / I graduate
CHAPTER XXI / The muleteer
CHAPTER XXII / Return to Rio
CHAPTER XXIII / Sad, but short
CHAPTER XXIV / Short, but happy
CHAPTER XXV / In Tijuca
CHAPTER XXVI / The author hesitates
CHAPTER XXVII / Virgília?
CHAPTER XXVIII / As long as . . .
Chapter XXIX / The visit
CHAPTER XXX / The flower of the thicket
CHAPTER XXXI / The black butterfly
CHAPTER XXXII / Lame since birth
CHAPTER XXXIII / Blessed are those who do not go down to the city
CHAPTER XXXIV / To a sensitive soul
CHAPTER XXXV / The road to Damascus
CHAPTER XXXVI / On the subject of boots
CHAPTER XXXVII / At last!
CHAPTER XXXVIII / The fourth edition
CHAPTER XXXIX / The neighbor
CHAPTER XL / In the carriage
CHAPTER XLI / The hallucination
CHAPTER XLII / What Aristotle left out
CHAPTER XLIII / A marchioness, because I will be a marquis
CHAPTER XLIV / A Cubas!
CHAPTER XLV / Notes
CHAPTER XLVI / The inheritance
CHAPTER XLVII / The recluse
CHAPTER XLVIII / A cousin of Virgília’s
CHAPTER XLIX / The tip of my nose
CHAPTER L / Virgília married
CHAPTER LI / Mine!
CHAPTER LII / The mysterious parcel
CHAPTER LIII / . . . . .
CHAPTER LIV / The pendulum clock
CHAPTER LV / The age-old conversation between Adam and Eve
CHAPTER LVI / The opportune moment
CHAPTER LVII / Fate
CHAPTER LVIII / A confidence
CHAPTER LIX / An encounter
CHAPTER LX / The embrace
CHAPTER LXI / A project
CHAPTER LXII / The pillow
CHAPTER LXIII / Let’s run away!
CHAPTER LXIV / The transaction
CHAPTER LXV / Eyes and ears
CHAPTER LXVI / Legs
CHAPTER LXVII / The little house
CHAPTER LXVIII / The lash
CHAPTER LXIX / A grain of folly
CHAPTER LXX / Dona Plácida
CHAPTER LXXI / The problem with this book
CHAPTER LXXII / The bibliomaniac
CHAPTER LXXIII / “Afternoon tea”
CHAPTER LXXIV / Dona Plácida’s story
CHAPTER LXXV / To myself
CHAPTER LXXVI / Manure
CHAPTER LXXVII / The tryst
CHAPTER LXXVIII / The governorship
CHAPTER LXXIX / Compromise
CHAPTER LXXX / Secretary
CHAPTER LXXXI / The reconciliation
CHAPTER LXXXII / A question of botany
CHAPTER LXXXIII / 13
CHAPTER LXXXIV / The conflict
CHAPTER LXXXV / The mountain peak
CHAPTER LXXXVI / The mystery
CHAPTER LXXXVII / Geology
CHAPTER LXXXVIII / The patient
CHAPTER LXXXIX / In extremis
CHAPTER XC / The age-old conversation between Adam and Cain
CHAPTER XCI / An extraordinary letter
CHAPTER XCII / An extraordinary man
CHAPTER XCIII / The supper
CHAPTER XCIV / The secret cause
CHAPTER XCV / Flowers of yesteryear
CHAPTER XCVI / The anonymous letter
CHAPTER XCVII / Between lips and forehead
CHAPTER XCVIII / Deleted
CHAPTER XCIX / In the orchestra
CHAPTER C / Probability
CHAPTER CI / The Dalmatian revolution
CHAPTER CII / As a respite
CHAPTER CIII / Distraction
CHAPTER CIV / It was him!
CHAPTER CV / The equivalence of windows
CHAPTER CVI / A dangerous game
CHAPTER CVII / A note
CHAPTER CVIII / Things that can’t be understood
CHAPTER CIX / The philosopher
CHAPTER CX / 31
CHAPTER CXI / The wall
CHAPTER CXII / Public opinion
CHAPTER CXIII / Solder
CHAPTER CXIV / End of a conversation
CHAPTER CXV / Lunch
CHAPTER CXVI / The philosophy of old letters
CHAPTER CXVII / Humanitism
CHAPTER CXVIII / The third force
CHAPTER CXIX / Brackets
CHAPTER CXX / Compelle intrare
CHAPTER CXXI / Downhill
CHAPTER CXXII / A very noble sentiment
CHAPTER CXXIII / The real Cotrim
CHAPTER CXXIV / By way of interlude
CHAPTER CXXV / Epitaph
CHAPTER CXXVI / Grief
CHAPTER CXXVII / Formality
CHAPTER CXXVIII / In the Chamber
CHAPTER CXXIX / No remorse
CHAPTER CXXX / To be inserted into Chapter CXXIX
CHAPTER CXXXI / Concerning a calumny
CHAPTER CXXXII / Which isn’t serious
CHAPTER CXXXIII / Helvétius’s principle
CHAPTER CXXXIV / Fifty years old
CHAPTER CXXXV / Oblivion
CHAPTER CXXXVI / Pointlessness
CHAPTER CXXXVII / The shako
CHAPTER CXXXVIII / To a critic
CHAPTER CXXXIX / How I did not become minister of state
CHAPTER CXL / Which explains the previous one
CHAPTER CXLI / The dogs
CHAPTER CXLII / The secret request
CHAPTER CXLIII / I won’t go
CHAPTER CXLIV / Relative usefulness
CHAPTER CXLV / Simple repetition
CHAPTER CXLVI / The manifesto
CHAPTER CXLVII / Folly
CHAPTER CXLVIII / The insoluble problem
CHAPTER CXLIX / Theory of good deeds
CHAPTER CL / Rotation and revolution
CHAPTER CLI / Philosophy of epitaphs
CHAPTER CLII / Vespasian’s coin
CHAPTER CLIII / The alienist
CHAPTER CLIV / The ships of Piraeus
CHAPTER CLV / A friendly reflection
CHAPTER CLVI / Servant’s pride
CHAPTER CLVII / A brilliant phase
CHAPTER CLVIII / Two encounters
CHAPTER CLIX / Semi-madness
CHAPTER CLX / On negatives
Notes
Biographical Note
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