PLCS 13/14 (2005)
Novel

Strategies of Deceit: Dom Casmurro

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  • Marta de Senna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62791/2wx3ye92

Published 2016-09-20

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Abstract

Abstract: Dom Casmurro is a misleading narrator who uses all sorts of stratagems to manipulate the reader’s reception. One such stratagem is the peculiar use he makes of quotations of (and allusions to) other literary texts, often partially or wrongly reproduced, in order to convince the reader that what he says is true. Behind him, every now and then, Machado the author seems to warn us against his deceitful narrator.

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