Machado de Assis, 1839-1908.
Dom Casmurro : a novel / by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson ; with a foreword by John Gledson and an afterword by João Adolfo Hansen. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. - xxvii, 258 p. ; 22 cm. - Library of Latin America .
Includes bibliographical references.
"At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable. Gledson produces a much-needed, graceful and accurate translation, attentive to Machado's tone and rhythms. Hansen's Afterword is excellent"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Reference
0195103084 (acidfree paper)
96044126
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Authorship--Fiction.
Catholics--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PQ9697.M18 / D613 1997
869.3
Dom Casmurro : a novel / by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson ; with a foreword by John Gledson and an afterword by João Adolfo Hansen. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. - xxvii, 258 p. ; 22 cm. - Library of Latin America .
Includes bibliographical references.
"At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable. Gledson produces a much-needed, graceful and accurate translation, attentive to Machado's tone and rhythms. Hansen's Afterword is excellent"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Reference
0195103084 (acidfree paper)
96044126
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Authorship--Fiction.
Catholics--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PQ9697.M18 / D613 1997
869.3