Just watched the whole mini TV series Capitu, which is an incredibly fidel, but yet creative adaption of Machado de Assis' novel Dom Casmurro.
Too bad Machado de Assis isn't very well known outside Brazil and Portugal, Harold Bloom places Machado alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes. His works are just really genius and outstanding.
In Dom Casmurro for instance, the writer of the book isn't Machado himself, but his character is. Because of that, he alters his own writing to look like it's another person, like for instance, the division of chapters is very unstable. Sometimes a chapter has just one paragraph, sometimes it has ten pages. He also wrote texts of literature genres that actually just existed about ten or twenty years after his death. (like surrealism)
Too bad Machado de Assis isn't very well known outside Brazil and Portugal, Harold Bloom places Machado alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes. His works are just really genius and outstanding.
In Dom Casmurro for instance, the writer of the book isn't Machado himself, but his character is. Because of that, he alters his own writing to look like it's another person, like for instance, the division of chapters is very unstable. Sometimes a chapter has just one paragraph, sometimes it has ten pages. He also wrote texts of literature genres that actually just existed about ten or twenty years after his death. (like surrealism)
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