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100 1 $aMachado de Assis,$d1839-1908.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80002329
240 10 $aMemórias póstumas de Brás Cubas.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96089472
245 10 $aEpitaph of a small winner /$cMachado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese by Wiliam L. Grossman ; drawings by Shari Frisch ; foreword by Susan Sontag.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus & Giroux,$c2008.
300 $axxiv, 209 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aFSG classics
500 $a"Originally published in Brazil in 1880 under the title Memórias pósthumas de Brás Cubas"--T.p. verso.
500 $a"The foreword by Susan Sontag originally appeared in The New Yorker, in a slightly different form"--T.p. verso.
500 $a"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.
650 0 $aDead$vFiction.
650 0 $aRich people$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110355
651 0 $aBrazil$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114475
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
700 1 $aGrossman, William L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96015677
700 1 $aFrisch, Shari.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008137281
700 1 $aSontag, Susan,$d1933-2004.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049274
830 0 $aFSG classics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006048067
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