Epitaph of a Small Winner: A Novel (FSG Classics)
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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).
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release date: 29 April 2008
ISBN-10 : 0374531234 | ISBN-13: 9780374531232
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Release date: 29 April 2008
ISBN-10 : 0374531234 | ISBN-13: 9780374531232
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