One character in this work is compared to a "Homeric heifer," and later, the central character compares himself to Priam after speaking at his drowned friend's funeral.
One character in this work is compared to a "Homeric heifer," and later, the central character compares himself to Priam after speaking at his drowned friend's funeral. That central character first kisses his neighbor after braiding her hair. Later, the title character's suspicions are aroused after a failed astronomy lesson results in his wife revealing the money she saved, and again after he sees her gazing at a dead man with her eyes like the tide. The narrator plans to write a History of the Suburbs after completing this work, in which he becomes convinced that his son Ezekiel was fathered by his friend Escobar. The main plot sees CapitÃº accused of adultery by her jealous husband Bento Santiago. FTP, name this novel by Machado de Assis.
One character in this work is compared to a "Homeric heifer," and later, the central character compares himself to Priam after speaking at his drowned friend's funeral.
Dom Casmurro