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 ground-breaking 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 Withdrawn and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 neighbours 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 humour, this is another
stunningly modern tale from the progenitor of twentieth-century
fiction.
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