The video of an American influencer enchanted by the book “Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas”, by Machado de Assis went viral on social media this weekend.
“I need to have a little chat with people in Brazil,” said Courtney Henning Novak, who read the Brazilian literature classic as part of a TikTok challenge in which she must read a book from each country in alphabetical order.
“I have three big problems with this book. First, my edition is only 300 pages long. I only have 100 pages left, and if I'm very careful they'll last until the weekend. And then what? What should I do with the rest of my life?”, said the influencer.
The second problem, according to her, is that the letter B (for Brazil) is only the second letter of the alphabet: “What should I do? Because you didn't warn me that this is the best book ever written. I still have to read from Brunei to Zimbabwe.”
“And number three: now I have to learn Portuguese”, she said. “I can't even imagine how good this is in Portuguese. So now, in the midst of my project of reading around the world, I have another task which is to learn Portuguese.”
An American on Tiktok made a challenge to read a classic from each country in the world and for Brazil they recommended Brás Cubas
The poor thing looked like this: pic.twitter.com/1RMQesfhKa
— Lea Michele literate using the Paulo Freire method (@ive_brussell) May 18, 2024
Source: CNN Brasil
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