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In Machado de Assis's masterpiece *Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas* (1881), the adoption of a 'defunto autor' (deceased author) as the first-person narrator serves primarily to:

Reinforce romantic sentimentalism and glorify the spiritual afterlife of the elite. Liberate the narrator from bourgeois social hypocrisy, allowing for cynical, unfettered moral scrutiny. Establish a strictly objective, scientifically neutral naturalist case study of human pathology. Promote the positivist political ideals of the newly emerging Brazilian Republican movement.

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Liberate the narrator from bourgeois social hypocrisy, allowing for cynical, unfettered moral scrutiny.

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