Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator ofDom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded--he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best friend and that her child is not his. Has Capitu, his love since childhood, really been unfaithful to him? Or is the evidence of her betrayal merely the product of a paranoid mind? First published in 1900,Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis's greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale--a sad and darkly comic novel about love and the corrosive power of jealousy.Machado de Assis was born in Rio de Janeiro. Among his many novels arePhilosopher or Dog?andEpitaph of a Small Winner.Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator ofDom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded--he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best friend and that her child is not his. Has Capitu, his love since childhood, really been unfaithful to him? Or is the evidence of her betrayal merely the product of a paranoid mind? First published in 1900,Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis's greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale--a sad and darkly comic novel about love and the corrosive power of jealousy. "I am astonished that a writer of such greatness does not yet occupy the place he deserves."--Susan Sontag "Machado retrieves from Cervantes the origins of the novel as illusion, play, ambiguity and adventure."--K. David Jackson,The New York Times Book Review