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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Dom Casmurro

A Novel

Av Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

305 kr

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Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson’s critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil’s most ground-breaking authors. Hailed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), Machado’s genius is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento Santiago, an engaging yet unreliable narrator, suspects his wife, Capitu, of having an affair with his closest friend. Withdrawn and obsessive, our antihero mines the origins of their love story: from childhood neighbours playing innocently in the backyard to his brief spell in a seminary to marriage and the birth of their child—whom, he fears, does not resemble him. A gripping domestic drama brimming with Machado’s signature humour, this is another stunningly modern tale from the progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-05-23
  • Mått: 147 x 218 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 457 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781324090700
  • Översättare: Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro and is the groundbreaking author of such works as Dom Casmurro and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. The peerless translator MARGARET JULL COSTA has won countless prizes for her translations from Portuguese and Spanish. Robin Patterson has translated works by José Luandino Vieira and José Luís Peixoto. With Margaret Jull Costa, he has also co-translated works by Machado de Assis and Fernando Pessoa.

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"It is one of the unexpected services of Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson’s new translation of DOM CASMURRO that they have helped me solve the mystery of my first impression. As I was reading their translation, I pulled out the first one I had read, one of the many that came before. I saw that the difficulty of translating Machado is not that his language is so precise and clear: That would seem to make the task easy. The challenge for the translator is that the writer uses precise and clear phrases (“Good morning!”) in a way that turns their precision and clarity against them and suggests something else. Rather than letting these lines stand, slyly winking and furtively smiling, the earlier translator had tried to nudge the reader too firmly toward that something else . . . More than perhaps any book I know, “Dom Casmurro” has to be read more than once. It teaches us to read in much the same way that Vermeer teaches us to see — by looking, and then looking again."

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