Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis
A first-person, introspective memoir in which an older man recounts his childhood and life in Rio de Janeiro, his long love for a clever and enigmatic woman named Capitu, and the friendship with a schoolmate who becomes central to his growing jealousy; the narrative slowly unspools episodes of youth, marriage, social expectation and a possible betrayal, while the narrator’s uneasy memory and obsessive doubts leave the question of infidelity unresolved and turn the book into a study of suspicion, the unreliability of memory, and the moral complexities of love and honor.
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- Published
- 1899
- Nationality
- Brazilian
- Length
- Unknown
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- Original Language
- Portuguese
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