| Author/Contributor(s): | de Assis, Machado; Grossman, William L.; Sontag, Susan |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Date: | 04/29/2008 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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).