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Epitaph of a Small Winner

(1880)
(The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas)
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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).

Genre: Literary Fiction

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"One of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature." - Salman Rushdie


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