num_pages: 236
description: “I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing.” So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.
language: English
title: Epitaph of a Small Winner
titlecomplete: Epitaph of a Small Winner
characters: Virgília, Quincas Borba, Lobo Neves, Brás Cubas
genres: Fiction, Brazil, Latin American, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Literary Fiction, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 28938
places: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux