Dom Casmurro

Name: Dom Casmurro
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ISBN: 9780195103090

ISBN-10: 0195103092

ISBN-13: 9780195103090

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson, Joï¿½o Adolfo Hansen

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/10/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English