Epitaph of a Small Winner - Softcover

Assis, Machado De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747533555 ISBN 13: 9780747533559

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997

Synopsis

This is the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy 19th-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humour. Machado de Assis is the author of "Don Cosmurro" and "Philosopher or Dog?"

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Review

""Epitaph of a Small Winner" is probably one of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery." --From the foreword by Susan Sontag

"Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James..."Epitaph of a Small Winner" is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair..." --"The New York Times Book Review"

"No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying." "--The New Republic"

"A masterpiece of Epicurean irony." "--The New York Times"

"Epitaph of a Small Winner" is probably one of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery. "From the foreword by Susan Sontag"

Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James..."Epitaph of a Small Winner" is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair... "The New York Times Book Review"

No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying. "The New Republic"

A masterpiece of Epicurean irony. "The New York Times""

"Epitaph of a Small Winner is probably one of those thrillingly original, radically skeptical books that will always impress readers with the force of private discovery." --From the foreword by Susan Sontag

"Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy, or James...Epitaph of a Small Winner is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair..." --The New York Times Book Review

"No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying." --The New Republic

"A masterpiece of Epicurean irony." --The New York Times

About the Author

Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered one of Brazil's greatest novelists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0747533555
• ISBN 13: 9780747533559
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240