Description
At thirty years old, Joaquim Maria Machado of Assisi was already an enormously popular writer, recognized and respected in Brazil. However, a disease, he 1869, forced him to retreat to Freiburg. On returning, reappeared in a completely new and surprising style. In this new stage, Machado shows us the author of an extraordinary modernity, in which acuteness tempers deep pessimism and raw disillusionment. It is in this context that Mr. Casmurro appears (1899), novel in which Betinho, today a taciturn lawyer but yesterday destined by his mother for the priesthood, looks back and tells us the story of his teenage relationship with Capitu, their secret meetings and burning promises to a marriage that ends up becoming, by the appearance of delirious jealousy, in a phantasmagoric building based on mistrust and suspicion. "Run and read Casmurro's adventures." Jordi Llovet, The country.
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