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This seems, at first glance, a strange characterization; the third-person narrator of Quincas Borba talks openly, repeatedly, and at considerable length about philosophy.
Furthermore, that narrator tells us that he is the creator of the Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Machado’s 1881 novel in which the character of Quincas Borba the philosopher first appeared. We quite naturally presume, therefore, that the narrator and Machado de Assis are one and the same. We also presume, on the basis of our experience with various forms of narration, that an omniscient third-person narrator is a reliable guide to the characters and events described in the text.
The narrator, however, is not Machado de Assis but one of the novelist’s fictional creations. The charm and serf-assurance of this chatty, irreverent, and sophisticated man-about-town both propel the narrative and guarantee its validity. The discourse and social attitudes of the narr
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