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<br> "A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old palm-tree, and I believed in old palm-trees even more than in old books. Birds, butterflies, a cricket trying out its summer song, all the living things of the air were of the same opinion." So begins this extraordinary love story between Bento and Capitu, childhood sweethearts who grow up next door to each other in Rio de Janeiro in the 1850s. <br> Like other great nineteenth century novels--<em>The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary</em>--Machado de Assis's <em>Dom Casmurro</em> 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 narrative style. Far from creating the illusion of an orderly fictional "reality," <em>Dom Casmurro</em> is told by a narrator who is disruptively se

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Author

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; João Adolfo Hansen

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199938797

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.24 / 5 (141 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14