Epitaph of a Small Winner (Paperback)

Machado de Assis

ISBN 10: 0747599041 / ISBN 13: 9780747599043

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2008

About this Item

Paperback. '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 has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave may have given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has certainly not dampened his sense of humour. Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history. 'One of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature The kind of humour that makes skulls smile' Salman Rushdie Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Epitaph of a Small Winner (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747599041
• ISBN 13: 9780747599043
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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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 has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave may have given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has certainly not dampened his sense of humour. 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 most treasured writers.