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 García Márquez 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).
| ISBN: | 9780374531232 |
| Publication date: | 29th April 2008 |
| Author: | Machado de Assis |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | FSG Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |