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A review by iagonizing
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
3.0
This is your typical 19th-century style novel, with the writer addressing you directly and constantly breaking the fourth wall. He tells you he's going to explain a situation in future chapters and that explanation never comes. Or he tells you he doesn't care much about something that just happened in the narration so he starts talking about something else instead.
It's amusing and chatty, and I quite enjoyed the style. There is sarcasm and irony in the passages however, the buildup to the actual "meat" of the story only comes up very very late in the book, making for a very abrupt development and end. That was quite disappointing, as it is after all a novel about Dom Casmurro's suspicion that his wife cheated on him with his best friend. (Not a spoiler , it's like saying that ET is about aliens)
So I was expecting a bit more of a leadup, more details about his suspicions and so on. We go all the way back to when he and his wife are children, so why not plant the idea that Capitu is a cheater since then? In any case, I am of the camp that doesn't believe she cheated on him, but rather that his jealousy simply has led him to believe things that aren't there.
It's amusing and chatty, and I quite enjoyed the style. There is sarcasm and irony in the passages however, the buildup to the actual "meat" of the story only comes up very very late in the book, making for a very abrupt development and end. That was quite disappointing, as it is after all a novel about Dom Casmurro's suspicion that his wife cheated on him with his best friend. (Not a spoiler , it's like saying that ET is about aliens)
So I was expecting a bit more of a leadup, more details about his suspicions and so on. We go all the way back to when he and his wife are children, so why not plant the idea that Capitu is a cheater since then? In any case, I am of the camp that doesn't believe she cheated on him, but rather that his jealousy simply has led him to believe things that aren't there.