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lt;b>A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas</b><br><br><span>Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel </span><i>The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas</i><span> (also translated as </span><i>Epitaph of a Small Winner</i><span>), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare-brained philosophies and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave.</span><br><br><span>Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty and ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to works by Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce, Nabokov, Borges and Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world.<br><br><br><strong><i data-mce-fragment="1">Number of pages: 368</i></strong><br data-mce-fragment="1"><br data-mce-fragment="1"><strong><i data-mce-fragment="1">Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 16 mm</i></strong><br></span>
A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasMachado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (also translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare-brained philosophies and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave.Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty and ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to works by Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce, Nabokov, Borges and Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world.Number of pages: 368Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 16 mm
One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written. --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of
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