That narrator also recounts his love affair with Marcela before he speaks of the comforting power of Shakespeare after his mother died.
While at an opera, the title character of one of this author's novels explains his Manichean theory that God is a librettist, Satan a composer, and the earth is a theatre away from the "celestial observatory." That novel's title character claims that when he was a child, the emperor drove to his house and told his mother to send him to medical school, not a seminary. Another novel by this author concerns a man who claims his idÃ©e fixe is a poultice. That narrator also recounts his love affair with Marcela before he speaks of the comforting power of Shakespeare after his mother died. That novel is dedicated to the (*) "first worm that gnawed on the cold flesh" of the title character's corpse. The aforementioned first novel by this man concerns Capitu, whom Bento believes cheated on him with his best friend. For 10 points, name this Brazilian author of Dom Casmuro and The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.
While at an opera, the title character of one of this author's novels explains his Manichean theory that God is a librettist, Satan a composer, and the earth is a theatre away from the "celestial observatory.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis