EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER

DE ASSIS, MACHADO.;.GROSSMAN, WILLIAM L. TRANS.

ISBN 10: 0871404966 / ISBN 13: 9780871404961

Edité par Noonday Press 1952 TP & VERSO, NY, 1952

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GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE)DUST JACKET, CLEAN, SOLID, EDGEWEAR TO DRAMATIC DUST JACKET. ; Gold & SILVER titles on spine strip.BLUE hardcovers.white endpapers.BLACK & WHITE TITLES DARK BLUE DUST JACKET, SHOWING "MODERN ART" FACE, TOMBSTONE & MECHANICAL LINES. *****NOTE PUBLISHER.NOONDAY**** ; 223pg pages; 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.

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• Titre: EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER
• Éditeur: Noonday Press 1952 TP & VERSO, NY
• Date de parution: 1952
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0871404966
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780871404961
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Illustrated by FRISCH, SHARI DRAWINGS
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good

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Synopsis

A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.

A progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. This majestic translation combines all his short-story collections appearing in his lifetime and reintroduces de Assis as a literary giant who must be integrated into the world literary canon.

À propos de l?auteur

Machado De Assis, the grandson of ex-slaves, was born in Rio de Janeiro and wrote Philosopher or Dog?, among other novels and short-story collections.