Dom Casmurro
Author: Machado de Assis
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 from the realism of its contemporaries, and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narr….Read More
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