Dom Casmurro : a novel / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machado de Assis, 1839-1908, author.

Contributor:

Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.

Patterson, Robin, translator.

Standardized Title:

Dom Casmurro. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Jealousy--Fiction.

Jealousy.

Husband and wife--Fiction.

Husband and wife.

Adultery--Fiction.

Adultery.

Priests--Fiction.

Priests.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Fiction.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2023]

Language Note:

Translated from Portuguese.

Summary:

"Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil's most groundbreaking authors. Hailed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), Machado's genius is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento Santiago, an engaging yet unreliable narrator, suspects his wife, Capitu, of having an affair with his closest friend. Withdrawn and obsessive, our antihero mines the origins of their love story: from childhood neighbors playing innocently in the backyard to his brief spell in a seminary to marriage and the birth of their child--whom, he fears, does not resemble him. A gripping domestic drama brimming with Machado's signature humor, this is another stunningly modern tale from the progenitor of twentieth-century fiction."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781324090700

1324090707

OCLC:

1379361838