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Machado De Assis, MacHado/ Grossman De Assis, Shari Frisch

Epitaph of a Small Winner

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

Informationen zum Autor Machado de Assis is Brazil's most renowned writer and considered one of the greatest writers in Western literature. Klappentext 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 Garcia Marquez 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).

Product details

Authors	Machado De Assis, MacHado/ Grossman De Assis
Assisted by	Shari Frisch (Illustration), William L. Grossman (Translation)
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	29.04.2008

EAN	9780374531232
ISBN	978-0-374-53123-2
No. of pages	209
Dimensions	146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
Series	FSG Classics FSG Classics
Subject	Fiction > Narrative literature

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