Realist Trilogy reading order

Publication order

3 volumes·1881–1899·Completed

• The three great novels of Machado de Assis, Brazil’s foremost writer, which broke with romanticism in the 1880s.
• The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is narrated by a dead man, wittily, from beyond the grave; Quincas Borba follows a provincial heir ruined in Rio; Dom Casmurro, the most read and best rated, is told by a jealous husband whose account of his wife’s supposed betrayal may not be trusted.
• Each stands alone; Dom Casmurro is the place to start.