Epitaph of a Small Winner: A Novel

by Machado De Assis

2021-01-08 17:41:23

In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of ... Read more

In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph for a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history as well as "one of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature" (Salman Rushdie).

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File size8.24 X 5.47 X 0.67 in
Print pages240
PublisherFarrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication date April 29, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780374531232

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