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'One of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature The kind of humour that makes skulls smile' Salman Rushdie

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'Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy or James ... Epitaph of a Small Winner is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair' New York Times Book Review 'No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying' New Republic 'A masterpiece of Epicurean irony' New York Times

Epitaph of a Small Winner

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 01/09/2008
    ISBN13: 9780747599043, 978-0747599043
    ISBN10: 0747599041

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    'One of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature The kind of humour that makes skulls smile' Salman Rushdie

    Trade Review
    'Machado de Assis was a literary force, transcending nationality and language, comparable certainly to Flaubert, Hardy or James ... Epitaph of a Small Winner is clearly one of those books which we call definitive. It is there, complete, done: a study of ironic disillusionment couched in the most delicate suavity of despair' New York Times Book Review 'No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman. Machado, in his deceptively amiable way, is terrifying' New Republic 'A masterpiece of Epicurean irony' New York Times

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