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Epitaph of a Small Winner : A Novel

Assis, Machado deSontag, Susan(Foreword by)Grossman, William L.(Translated by)
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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 Garcia Marquez 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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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374531234 / 9780374531232
Paperback
29/04/2008
240 pages
140 x 212 mm, 231 grams