Dom Casmurro - Couverture souple

De Assis, MacHado

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0380496682 ISBN 13 : 9780380496686

Editeur : Avon Books, 1980

Synopsis

Book by De Assis MacHado

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

MACHADO DE ASSIS (1838-1908), Brazil's greatest novelist, was born in a poor carioca district of Rio de Janeiro. In the course of his lifetime he never ventured more than a few miles outside his native city. He worked as a newspaper reporter before entering the civil service where he rose to become the head of a department. During his writing career he published more than two hundred short stories and nine novels, including Dom Casmurro, Esau and Jacob and The Wager. He was one of the founders, and the first president, of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

About the Translator and Editor: John Gledson is Professor Emeritus, Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool. He has written two books and numerous articles on Machado de Assis. Joao Adolfo Hansen is a highly-regarded Brazilian literary critic.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a fictional memoir by the nineteenth-century Brazilian writer whom Philip Roth has described as 'a great ironist, a tragic comedian'. "Dom Casmurro" is the story of Bento Santiago, an affluent citizen of Rio who comes to believe in his old age that his beloved wife, Capitu, betrayed him with his best friend for many years. In telling the sometimes sad, sometimes raucous tale of his love for and loss, through jealousy, of Capitu, he reconstructs - and sometimes wildly reimagines - the past in order to make the present more bearable.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Avon Books
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0380496682
• ISBN 13: 9780380496686
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible