Joaquin Maria Machado de Assis

A Novel

Dom Casmurro

Machado de Assis

Dom Casmurro (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira)

É chatinho, mas é uma leitura essencial para qualquer brasileiro.

L4rry.

Might have been a bad translation, but I still think the interesting part of the story is happening very late. The whole seminary thing was just too long. The end was good though. Catching in a way and makes you think.

Tim Oliver

Jackeline Maleski

Ana Luiza

O solitário Bentinho relembra sua vida e o seu amor pela bela e intrigante Capitu - um dos maiores personagens da literatura brasileira. E partilha com o leitor o ciúme e a desconfiança que encheram de amargor a sua vida.

Yago Ramalho

Joshua Line

A stunning novel by one of Brazil's greatest writers. Like other great 19th-century novels, Machado de Assis's DOM CASMURRO explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel from the realism of its contemporaries, and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narrative style--a literary genius of the rarest kind.

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Ygor Medeiros de Morais

Stephanie Noelle

Julia Fraga

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

John A. Gledson

Like other great nineteenth century novels--The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary--Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narrative style. As he recounts the events of his life from the vantage of a lonely old age, the narrator Bento continually interrupts his story to reflect on the writing of it. But the novel is more than a performance of stylistic acrobatics. It is an ironic critique of Catholicism, in which God appears as a kind of divine accountant whose ledgers may be balanced in devious as well as pious ways. It is also a story about love and its obstacles, about deception and self-deception, and about the failure of memory to make life's beginning fit neatly into its end.This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century.

Dom Casmurro A Novel

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