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Epitaph of a small winner

'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 has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave may have given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has certainly not dampened his sense of humour. Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.

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  • "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 has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave may have given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has certainly not dampened his sense of humour. Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history."@en
  • "An 1880s novel in which--after his death--a wealthy Brazilian records his life for posterity. The spirit of Bras Cuba s describes his experience on earth in politics, an affair with the wife of a friend, and his experiments to find a poultic e to cure all ills. Á."@en
  • "Ghost of prominent Brazilian weighs good against bad and balances the books of his life on earth."
  • ""In his posthumous memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that both cover the basics of his existence and open out into philosophical explorations that sometimes follow meandering paths of thought to unexpected places, at times exuberant and hilarious, at other times cynical and utterly at odds with the world around him. In the tradition of Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift -- and as a clear forerunner of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges -- Epitaph of a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history, as well as quite possibly the greatest novel you have never heard of"--Page 4 of cover."@en

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  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
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  • "Satire"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Epitaph of a small winner : transl. from the Portuguese by William L. Grossman"
  • "Epitaph of a small winner"
  • "Epitaph of a small winner"@en
  • "Epitaph of a small winner : a novel"@en
  • "[Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas.] Epitaph of a Small Winner. Translated ... by William L. Grossman. Drawings by Shari Frisch"@en
  • "[Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas.] Epitaph of a Small Winner ... Translated ... by William L. Grossman"@en
  • "Epitaph of a Small Winner"

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