These suspicions lead him to believe that Ezequiel is not his child and that his wife Capitu has been unfaithful.
In one scene in this novel, the narrator describes a fat man attempting to mount a mule with the help of a slave. That man, a lawyer named Uncle Cosme, lives with the protagonist, his mother, and cousin Justina. It opens with the protagonist ruminating on his decision to build a replica of the house he grew up in on the old Rua de Matacavalos. The central conflict, spurred on by the machinations of the "dependent" Jose Dias, revolve around the resemblances between the protagonist's archaeologist son and his former best friend Escobar. These suspicions lead him to believe that Ezequiel is not his child and that his wife Capitu has been unfaithful. Taking its title from a nickname given to its unreliable narrator, for 10 points, identify this 1899 novel about Bentinho Santiago, a work by Machado de Assis
In one scene in this novel, the narrator describes a fat man attempting to mount a mule with the help of a slave.
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