Library of Latin America: Dom Casmurro (Hardcover)

from EadieB

This is a fast, easy read and the best love/triangle story that I have every read. The writing was very funny, somewhat dark but the narrator was wonderful. Machado de Assis shows Bentinho to lack self-confidence with lots of fear and jealous attitudes in his relationship with Capitu. The best pa...

from diadorim

It has been the most discussed book at our universities and the base of our literature. Machado was one of the fist authors for adults I read when I was just a teenager. since I met his prose I couldn't stop reading his books over and over again. Dom Casmurro is a book I read entirely in one afte...

from snash

A fascinating narrator, exposing his inadequacies and incongruity via the telling of his story. It's a story that can be read psychologically or sociologically; about being out of touch with reality.

from diadorim

It has been the most discussed book at our universities and the base of our literature. Machado was one of the fist authors for adults I read when I was just a teenager. since I met his prose I couldn't stop reading his books over and over again. Dom Casmurro is a book I read entirely in one afte...

from AlCracka

Machado de Assis is apparently Brazil's best-loved author and an antecedent of the magical realist style, and I'd never heard of him until this year. It's exciting when I find things like this. Well, that and a little humbling.Dom Casmurro is a weird and wonderful book. It's about a lifelong love...