Dom Casmurro
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson ; with a foreword by John Gledson and an afterword by João Adolfo Hansen.
Contributors: Gledson, John, 1945-
Series: Library of Latin America
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction; Adultery -- Fiction; Authorship -- Fiction; Catholics -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable. Gledson produces a much-needed, graceful and accurate translation, attentive to Machado's tone and rhythms. Hansen's Afterword is excellent"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.