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Epitaph of a Small Winner

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“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 had died and is now writing.” So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.

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Epitaph of a Small Winner, William L. Grossman, Shari Frisch, Machado de Assis

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1985
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Title
Epitaph of a Small Winner
Language
English
Publisher
Hogarth Press
Released
1985
Format
Paperback
Pages
224
ISBN10
070121919X
ISBN13
9780701219192
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First published
1881
Original title
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
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“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 had died and is now writing.” So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.