Dom Casmurro
Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator of Dom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded—he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best friend and that her child is not his. Has Capitú, his love since childhood, really been unfaithful to him? Or is the evidence of her...
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Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator of Dom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded—he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best friend and that her child is not his. Has Capitú, his love since childhood, really been unfaithful to him? Or is the evidence of her betrayal merely the product of a paranoid mind? First published in 1900, Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis’s greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale—a sad and darkly comic novel about love and the corrosive power of jealousy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374523039 (0374523037)
ASIN: 374523037
Publish date: September 15th 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
19th Century,
Latin American,
Portuguese Literature,
Brazil
This book is a first-person narrative about the life of Bento.Bento recalls his youth and adulthood, and tells about his friendships, education, romantic life, and family relationships.Machado de Assis tells a story about a man consumed by his own jealousy. This book contains one of the most intrigu...
Olha, sinceramente, vai tomar no cu todo mundo desse livro KKKK bando de maluco x_x.
Eu entendo a importância desse romance para a literatura brasileira e como Machado de Assis a representa, mas esse não é meu tipo de livro. Nem tenho uma razão lógica para justificar, mas acho que saber demais da vida do autor (como, por exemplo, que renegava a sua origem e raça) fez com que eu ...
Machado de Assis is apparently Brazil's best-loved author and an antecedent of the magical realist style, and I'd never heard of him until this year. It's exciting when I find things like this. Well, that and a little humbling.Dom Casmurro is a weird and wonderful book. It's about a lifelong love...
Enjoyable very modern read with an unreliable narrator describing the romance of his life, but with his judgement and memory clouded by an obsessive jealousy.
56 years ago
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