Quincas Borba

Machado de Assis

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Rubião inherits a fortune and a philosophy — 'to the victor, the potatoes' — and the two consume him together.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters and is the most influential realist writer in Portuguese.

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