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Epitaph of a small winner / Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese by William L. Grossman ; drawings by Shari Frisch ; with a new foreword by Susan Sontag.
LIBRA PQ9697.M18 M513 1990 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machado de Assis, 1839-1908.
- Standardized Title:
- Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Brazil--Fiction.
- Brazil.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Noonday Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- An 1880s novel in which--after his death--a wealthy Brazilian records his life for posterity. The spirit of Bras Cuba s describes his experience on earth in politics, an affair with the wife of a friend, and his experiments to find a poultic e to cure all ills. Á.
- Notes:
- Translation of Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas.
- ISBN:
- 0374521921
- 9780374521929
- OCLC:
- 22496351
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