Dom Casmurro's Critical Legacy in English: State of the Art

Abstract

Dom Casmurro, long canonized in Brazil, conquered a discreet, but solid place in the anglophone community, with dozens of articles, book chapters, and dissertations focused exclusively on it. It also enjoys a significant presence in journalistic criticism and even in pop culture. This study, the result of ten years of systematic literature survey as a means of organizing an annotated bibliography, gathers a relevant part from the critical legacy of the Brazilian novel by Machado de Assis in the English-speaking world, highlighting the impressive variety of approaches, which range from stylistic to postcolonial considerations, from relations to other titles of the Western canon to interpretations about the characters and their social milieu.