Dom Casmurro

About the author

Machado de Assis (1839 - 1908) was born in Rio de Janerio. He is widely considered the most influential of Brazilian writers. Among his many novels are Philosopher or Dog? and Epitaph of a Small Winner.

Summary

Bento Santiago is madly in love with his neighbour, Capitú. He even breaks a promise his devout mother made to God ¬ - that he become a priest - in order to marry her. But, once wed, Bento becomes increasingly convinced that Capitú is having a torrid affair, that his son is not his own, and that his best friend has cuckolded him.
What follows is a rich and sardonic narrative, as Bento attempts to discern his son's paternity. Are his suspicions actually based in reality or have his obsessive ruminations given way to deceptive illusions?
Originally published in Brazil in 1900, Dom Casmurro is widely considered Machado de Assis's greatest work and a classic of Brazilian realist literature. It is a delightful and hilarious novel - told by an entertainingly unreliable narrator - about the powers of jealousy and the deceitful persuasiveness of a mind in the grip of paranoia.

Foreword

'I, future padre, thus stood before her as before an altar, and one side of her face was the Epistle and the other the Gospel. Her mouth the chalice, her lips the paten.'

Product details

• Authors: Machado De Assis, Assis Machado de, Elizabeth Hardwick, Machado De Assis
• Assisted by: Helen Caldwell (Translation), Elizabeth Hardwick (Translation), Hardwick Elizabeth (Translation)
• Publisher: Daunt
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781907970504
• ISBN: 978-1-907970-50-4
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Daunt Books; Daunt Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary