"Originally published in Brazil in 1880 under the title Memórias
pósthumas de Brás Cubas"--T.p. verso.
"The foreword by Susan Sontag originally appeared in The New Yorker,
in a slightly different form"--T.p. verso.
"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"--P. [4] of cover.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: xxiv, 209 p. : ill. ; 21cm.
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