Margaret Jull Costa

Book Review: “Dom Casmurro” — A Dark and Delicious Postmodern Enigma

February 6, 2024
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This brilliant novel is not only out to subvert narrative expectations, but to undercut the act of reading itself.

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Book Review: “His Only Son” — A Delightful Discovery from Turn-of-the-Century Spain

December 1, 2016
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A splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.

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Book Review: Benito Pérez Galdós’s “Tristana” — Liberation, Though Off-Kilter

January 27, 2015
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Tristana is Ibsen’s Doll’s House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.

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