Epitaph of a Small Winner: A Novel

Machado De Assis

ISBN 10: 0374521921 / ISBN 13: 9780374521929

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Epitaph of a Small Winner: A Novel
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374521921
• ISBN 13: 9780374521929
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

“I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing.” So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.

About the Author

Machado de Assis was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839 and died in 1908. The author of numerous novels, including Dom Casmurro and Philosopher or Dog?, he is one of Latin America's greatest writers.