{"product_id":"2026100006000-secondhand-posthumous-reminiscences-of-braz-cubas","title":"Posthumous Reminiscences Of Braz Cubas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Fair\/Poor. Jacket: No dust jacket — boards heavily yellowed and worn with significant tanning. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning and likely foxing consistent with age; Moderate moisture stains on cover and pages. Markings: No visible markings from the image. Binding: Appears intact but fragile given age.\n \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark of Brazilian and world literature, Posthumous Reminiscences of Braz Cubas — also widely known as Epitaph of a Small Winner — is a darkly comic and philosophically rich novel narrated by its own dead protagonist. Machado de Assis, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Portuguese language, chronicles the life, loves, and follies of Braz Cubas from beyond the grave, delivering a sardonic and utterly original meditation on human vanity, ambition, and failure. Written in the form of memoirs composed in the afterlife, the novel presents a fragmented, digressive structure that anticipates modernist fiction by decades, blending sharp wit with profound pessimism. Translated from the Portuguese by E. Percy Ellis, this edition makes accessible one of the nineteenth century's most audacious and inventive works, a novel that unapologetically dismantles romantic illusions and argues that life's greatest achievements are often its most meaningless.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956348629211,"sku":"2026100006000-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dd926352-1f3f-4c77-ad30-adc42b1fc0ce.png?v=1783500034","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006000-secondhand-posthumous-reminiscences-of-braz-cubas","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}