Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro BOOK REVIEW

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[carolinapinheiro]

booktuber on a brazilian book:
brazilians: we've been summoned.

[huntersfavbandana]

"Did she cheat or not?" - ask a brazilian without a context; get an answer as natural as sunlight, without hesitation, cause everyone knows what it's about.

[clarissalira]

I've been waiting for this review! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[marcoantunes]

I totally agree with your perspective when you said “I think he’s one of the best authors period.” People tend to diminish colonized societies’ value by always saying that “it’s good, for their standards”. It’s really frustrating to see reviewers read European or North American books and say that their authors are great, but when they appreciate African/Latin American/Asian art, they either say “it was unexpectedly good”, as if being good in art demanded being born in a metropolitan country, or they say “it’s good, for a (insert a non-European and non-American nationality here) author”, implying that these countries should always get lower expectations. It’s simply disgusting and I’m so glad you mentioned it in your video.

[amandavincotoneti]

Brasileiros: você disse Brasil?
Somos piores que o Jubileu do Pica-pau ouvindo a palavra pipoca

[williamgodoi]

Fun fact: a good Brazilian university once studied this book to try to find out if there was more evidence that Capitu betrayed or that she did not. And guess what, there is exactly the same amount of evidence that she betrayed and did not betrayed.

[ricardodeoliveira]

It's no coincidence that Bento is a lawyer. Dom Casmurro is basically an old man's effort to defend himself from his consciouness and from his reader's judgment after the horrible things he did. This is why Machado de Assis chose to let his protagonist narrate his book.

[micaelvinicius]

Vídeo sobre o Brasil:
Brasileiros:quem nos invoca?

[flcs_luz]

This is one of the biggest controversies in Brazilian literature: "Capitu betrayed bentinho?"
Centuries later, we still don't know... Thanks Machado

[JoseAntonioGLira]

Arthur Shelby resenhando Dom casmurro é algo que eu vivi pra ver

[ddaprendizado]

Cliff, you'd love the book Capitães da Areia (Capitains of the Sands) written by Jorge Amado. Also one of Brazil's most read books ever.

[Luke.]

My favorite quote in the book is “Conhecia as regras do escrever, sem suspeitar as do amar; tinha orgias de latim e era virgem de mulheres.”

[gpeddino]

"Dom Casmurro" seems to be a response to "O Primo Basílio" (Eça de Queiroz), which is also about adultery. Machado famously criticized Eça's novel in a review published in 1878, which sparked a sort of feud between the authors.

[giulianacesca]

The "did she betray or not" is literally a centenary meme
Once again, thanks Machado

[ricardodeoliveira]

it's interesting to know that for decades since Dom Casmurro's release Brazilian critics were sure that Capitu did in fact cheat on Bento. It goes to show the "readers mirror" theory that you mentioned... The first person to suggest that Capitu didn't cheat on Bento was an American critic named Helen Caldwell; applying feminist criticism to Dom Casmurro in her 60's book "The Brazilian Othello of Machado de Assis", she paved the way for the modern interpretations of Machado's masterpiece.

[Elouisejb]

As a Brazilian, it is very strange to hear that "olhos de ressaca" translates to “undertow eyes” ... 👀

[daniloelias]

you should read "O Aliensta" (the alienist) by machado too, short but genius book... very much ahead of its time and a msut read to understand how come "alternative facts" are a thing nowadays

[thefail]

You should read the small novel by Machado called “O Alienista”. It’s a beautifully crafted critique on the pseudo science and determinism of the 19th century.

[NeylaneR]

Hi, Cliff. In Brazil we know philosopher or dog by the name of "Quincas Borba".

[matheusfermiano]

Sad part is that this and other masterpieces from our culture tend to be presented in schools in a way that makes everyone feel like these books are boring and meaningless, and many students never read other books because they think everything from brazilian literature sucks. I recommend you read The Time and the Wind, by Érico Veríssimo.