Question

This character dies in the midst of his fixation on creating his namesake “poultice” as a panacea and ultimately assesses his life as slightly positive because he didn’t have any children. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who, after his death, dedicates his memoirs to “the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse.”
ANSWER: Bras Cubas [accept The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas]
[10e] The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, through its absurd central narrator, served as a parody and criticism of the society, culture, and philosophies of this home country of Machado de Assis.
ANSWER: Brazil [or Federative Republic of Brazil or República Federativa do Brasil]
[10h] In The Posthumous Memoirs, recurring Machado de Assis character Quincas Borba expounds upon this philosophical system, which describes the belief in a figure for whom “the same man is distributed in all men.”
ANSWER: Humanitism [accept Humanitas]

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2023 ARCADIA at UC BerkeleyPremiereY120.00100%100%0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton UniversityPremiereY313.3367%33%33%
2023 ARCADIA at RITPremiereY120.00100%100%0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTLPremiereY310.0067%33%0%

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Cornell MATLABCornell R1010020