Dom Casmurro is one of Machado’s four novels that was never published in serial form. Edited and published in Paris in 1899, it entered the Brazilian market only in February 1900. Similar to Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, Dom Casmurro experiments with the conventions of narrative authority and exhibits meta-textual and self-referential elements. The novel follows the relationship of Bento Santiago and Capitu, from childhood infatuation to adulthood, and hinges on Bento’s jealousy and suspicion of Capitu’s infidelity. Famously called the Brazilian Othello by critic Helen Caldwell, Dom Casmurro is a masterpiece of Brazilian fiction.