Description
A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur
Reviews
"It is one of the unexpected services of Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson’s new translation of DOM CASMURRO that they have helped me solve the mystery of my first impression. As I was reading their translation, I pulled out the first one I had read, one of the many that came before. I saw that the difficulty of translating Machado is not that his language is so precise and clear: That would seem to make the task easy. The challenge for the translator is that the writer uses precise and clear phrases (“Good morning!”) in a way that turns their precision and clarity against them and suggests something else. Rather than letting these lines stand, slyly winking and furtively smiling, the earlier translator had tried to nudge the reader too firmly toward that something else . . . More than perhaps any book I know, “Dom Casmurro” has to be read more than once. It teaches us to read in much the same way that Vermeer teaches us to see — by looking, and then looking again." — Benjamin Moser, The New York Times Book Review
Also By: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 
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E Book, 2020
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Hardback, 2024
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E Book, 2023
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Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
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Also By: Robin Patterson
Quincas Borba: A Novel
Hardback, 2024
A vibrant new translation of Machado de Assis's classic novel about a young man flush with newfound wealth, who promptly gets swindledPosthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel
Paperback, 2021
Machado de Assis’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel
Hardback, 2020
Machado de Assis’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel
E Book, 2020
Machado de Assis’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.Machado de Assis: 26 Stories
E Book, 2019
This “watershed collection” (The Wall Street Journal) now appears in a selected paperback edition with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories.
