Dom Casmurro
Dom Casmurro is an 1899 novel written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Like "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas" and "Quincas Borba", both by Machado de Assis, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of realist literature. It is written as a fictional memoir by a distrusting, jealous husband. The narrator, however, is not a reliable conveyor of the story as it is a dark comedy. Dom Casmurro is considered by critic Afranio Coutinho "a true Brazilian masterpiece, and maybe Brazil's greatest representative piece of writing" and "one of the best books ever written in the Portuguese language, if not the best one to date." The author is considered a master of Brazilian literature with a unique style of realism.
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