Epitaph of a Small Winner - Paperback

by Machado de Assis (Author), William L. Grossman (Translator), Susan Sontag (Foreword by)

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 Garc a M rquez 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).

Author Biography

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