Epitaph of a Small Winner

Machado de Assis

Epitaph of a Small Winner
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Country
Published
29 April 2008
Pages
240
ISBN
9780374531232

Epitaph of a Small Winner

Machado de Assis

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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