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The unreliable narrator and the fictional memoir are long-standing literary traditions. Nineteenth-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis uses both to brilliant effect in his novel Dom Casmurro. Narrated by Bento Santiago, this memoir looks back over a life filled with the suspicion of betrayal: Bento is convinced that his wife had an affair with his best friend, and that his son was the result of it. Though he has no real evidence to support this belief, Bento becomes so obsessed with it that, in the end, he commits crimes far worse than the suspected adultery to avenge himself. The memoir itself is a kind of justification for his actions; Bento, now alone, recreates the environment of his childhood and attempts to rewrite the facts of his life--in essence, reconstructing the past.
Among readers familiar with Latin American literature, Machado is considered a master. His novels blend black comedy with deadly accurate social commentary and an unerring perception of human psychology to create works that are brilliant, complex without being opaque, and joys to read. The Oxford University Press edition is ably translated by John Gledson and accompanied by critical essays that will help orient readers unfamiliar with Machado's work. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Despite humble birth, epilepsy, and mixed blood, Machado de Assis rose to become Brazil's leading literary figure. In his fifth novel, published in 1899 and set in 1850s Rio de Janeiro, Bento Santiago schemes for years to escape from the seminary to marry Capitu, his childhood sweetheart, but then thinks he is betrayed by her. With a criminal's need to confess, he reveals that his jealousy is rooted in aboriginal evil crouching in the shadows long before it ever found its object. The saintliness of his nature is thus overpowered by his Iago half (Santiago means "Saint Iago"). The author's use of omissions, contradictions, and reservations to encourage insights, his ironic humor, and short sentences seem uncannily modern. This translation by University of Liverpool professor Gledson includes footnotes (unlike two earlier English translations), which are helpful in re-creating the physical and social geography of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro. A classic of world literature refashioned into modern and reader-friendly English. [This book is part of Oxford University Press's new "Library of Latin America" series, which also includes the author's The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, LJ 11/1/97.?Ed.]?Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll., Cumberland, Md.
-?Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll., Cumberland, Md.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
-?Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll., Cumberland, Md.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Machado de Assis is perhaps the greatest Portuguese language romancist, and certainly the most important Brazilian author. This book is his best work. In a very short manner, it could be desribed as a "Brazilian Ottello", but it mustn't be be considered as a version of the Shakespeare classic, but a unique story, very reach in itself. Machado has an amazing ability to make the reader feel like his characters, and involves us in a tram where the complete uncertainty and blind jealousy is thrilling, and rises our deepest passionate feelings, for or against the main character. This book is a definitely a must read for everyone who enjoys good literature.
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"Dom Casmurro" undoubtedly deserves a place in the "Hall of Fame" of the greatest literarian works of all time. Machado de Assis is really great!
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Dom Casmurro is the best book of world's literature. You need to read this book...It's a masterpiece.
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A Masterpiece of World Literature
Machado de Assis is probably one of the most underrated authors literature departments around the US-and other countries-have (not) encountered. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. September 1998 veröffentlicht
Those who didn't rate it 5 stars don't desearve it !
This is a classic of world's litterature. It should be known by everyone that the author learned to write only because he was an appretice at a printing shop when he was only 14 or... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
So--was he a cuckold?
Forgive me for being a literary proletariat, but this novel leaves the reader with a vague sense of being cheated, if you'll pardon the pun. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Dezember 1997 veröffentlicht
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