Dom Casmurro -Machado de Assis

Complete the "realistic trilogy" of Machado de Assis, next to the Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Quincas Borba.

Your main character is Bento Santiago, the narrator of the story, told in first person, intends to "tie the two ends of life", ie together reports from his youth to the days when he is writing the book. Between these two moments Benedict writes about his youth reminiscences, his life in the seminary, his affair with Capitu and jealousy that arises from that relationship, which becomes the central plot of the plot. Set in Rio de Janeiro the Second Empire that begins with an episode that was recently in which the narrator receives the nickname "Don Casmurro", hence the title of the novel. Machado de Assis wrote literary using tools like irony and intertextuality reaching Schopenhauer and above all the play Shakespeare's Othello.