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Epitaph of a Small Winner
Epitaph of a Small Winner | Machado de Assis
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)."
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Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Revised) | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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Throw the whole man in the garbage

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Doppoetry
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Revised) | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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All I can think of is “Girl, Run“ 💀

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Kristelh
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 1y
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Time for some brazilian literature.

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The book is told by the perspective of a dead man about his own life, extremely interesting

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Ariya1
Epitaph of a Small Winner | Machado de Assis
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Cool cover art!

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Epitaph of a Small Winner | Machado de Assis

A coach-man philosopher used to say that the desire to ride in carriages would be greatly diminished if everyone could afford to ride in carriages.

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#unusualnarrators Seen @Pruzy post and remember this book I read in school, a classic! "Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. But while he may be dead,he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction,a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Machado de Assis. #AndItsAugust

Pruzy Looking forward to reading a Brazilian classic! 7y
Sha0102 @Pruzy Let me know your impressions you have the chance! 7y
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