Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1941, the Brazilian Academy of Letters founded in his honor the Prêmio Machado de Assis (Machado de Assis Award), the most prestigious literary award in the country. For his innovation and audacity in early themes, Assis is often seen as a writer of unprecedented innovation, known for his irony and wide vocabulary. Generally considered to be Machado's greatest works are "Dom Casmurro" (1899), "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas", also translated as "Epitaph of a Small Winner") and "Quincas Borba" (also known in English as "Philosopher or Dog?"). Machado de Assis was included on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the greatest 100 geniuses of literature. Bloom considers him the greatest black writer in Western literature.