In its seventh chapter, the protagonist imagines he is an illustrated edition of Summa Theologica and that a hippopotamus carries him to the beginning of time.
This novel asks the reader to insert Chapter 130 in between the first and second sentences of Chapter 129. In its seventh chapter, the protagonist imagines he is an illustrated edition of Summa Theologica and that a hippopotamus carries him to the beginning of time. Its narrator recounts his affair with Marcela, and accuses the main defect of the book of being the reader. Its structure was influenced by its author's reading of Tristram Shandy, and in its first section, its narrator describes his admiration for the "free form" of Xavier de Maistre and Laurence Sterne. The narrator attempts to develop a poultice for melancholy, and loves Virgilia. Its narrative is broken by the inclusion of blank pages and an account of the title character's friend Quincas Borba. FTP, name this 1880 novel narrated by the title character from beyond the grave, written by Machado de Assis.
This novel asks the reader to insert Chapter 130 in between the first and second sentences of Chapter 129.
The {Posthumous Memoirs} of {Bras Cubas} [or {Memórias Póstumas} de {Brás Cubas}, {reluctantly} accept {Epitaph} of a {Small Winner}]