Epitaph of a Small Winner Machado de Assis
A wickedly comic improvisation of a dead man's acerbic commentary on his undistinguished life, EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER is by one of the great masters of Latin American and world literature.
Epitaph of a Small Winner
Epitaph of a Small Winner
Résumé
A comic improvization of a dead man's acerbic commentary on his undistinguished life. The Brazilian author was the subject of a BBC Radio 3 programme in November 1990 which aimed to re-establish him as a major literary figure. His other ironic novels include Quincas Borba and Dom Casmurro.
Epitaph of a Small Winner Résumé
À propos de Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839 into a poor mulatto family. Orphaned young, an epileptic, and largely self-educated, he made a living first as a printer, then a journalist, and finally, from 1873 to his death, as a conscientious civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture. Determined to be a writer from the age of fifteen, he published poetry, short stories and novels, winning recognition in the 1860s and '70s with works in the prevailing romantic vein. A severe illness in 1879 marked a starling break in his style and his later works are brilliantly original, ironic novels which include Epitaph of a Small Winner (1880) Quincas Borba (1891) and Dom Casmurro (1899). He was elected the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1897 and on his death, in Rio in 1908, he was given a state funeral with full civil and military honours.
Informations supplémentaires
GOR002111222
9780099883401
0099883406
Epitaph of a Small Winner Machado de Assis
Occasion - Bon état
Broché
Vintage Publishing
19910516
256
N/A
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