A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable
masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas
Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but
also a writer of world stature. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (also translated as Epitaph of
a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable
aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the
worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and
half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare-brained
philosophies and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave.
Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty and ahead of its time, the novel
has been compared to works by Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce, Nabokov,
Borges and Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers
around the world.
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