#48 in Classics
Dom Casmurro
- 269
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Dom Casmurro” rests on a jealous narrator who cannot be taken at his word, and it is a sly, darkly comic classic. Machado de Assis writes it as the memoir of a suspicious husband, and the pleasure lies in reading between the lines. Some readers say it opened up to them only on a later rereading, and still feel the narrator’s wounds show too early and too plainly; they prefer the author’s short stories.
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About the book
Dom Casmurro is an 1899 novel written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Like The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba, both by Machado de Assis, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of realist literature. It is written as a fictional memoir by a distrusting, jealous husband. The narrator, however, is not a reliable conveyor of the story as it is a dark comedy. Dom Casmurro is considered by critic Afrânio Coutinho "a true Brazilian masterpiece, and perhaps Brazil's greatest representative piece of writing" and "one of the best books ever written in the Portuguese language, if not the best one to date." The author is considered a master of Brazilian literature with a unique style of realism.
Reading order · Realist Trilogy
Full order & progress →- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás CubasStart here
–Not ranked yet - Quincas Borba
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8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.6 across 127 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 46% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.8 | 21 | 17% |
| Hardcover | 8.5 | 106 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is Dom Casmurro?
It has 269 pages — longer than 55% of the ranked books in Classics.
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