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The Posthumous Notes of Bras Kubas is a story of life's adventures, irony, and critical reflection on human nature. In doing so, he initiates a critical dialogue with realist aesthetics. He presents his vision, regardless of what the living will say or think about it. Such concepts as truth, science, and arguments seem to be debatable and, in Bras Kubas' opinion, relative. The author looks at the world with scepticism and disdain, directs his critical gaze at the human race, and turns the reader himself into one of the victims of the irony of his book.

The novel opens the first page of Brazilian realism.