1899Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis
The embittered old Bento Santiago, nicknamed Dom Casmurro, looks back on his boyhood love and marriage to the enigmatic Capitu, and on the jealousy, perhaps groundless, that convinced him she betrayed him with his best friend. Machado sets it in the real Rio of the Second Empire: the childhood house on Matacavalos and the wall between it and Capitu's, the seminary he is promised to, the church at Glória where his life turns, and the Flamengo shore where the sea takes his friend Escobar.
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