The Four greatest fiction books of all time
In my opinion
What makes a book a great book? Why do some stories leave such an impression on us, even when their plot doesn’t have much in common with our everyday lives? These are reflections on making a choice as tricky as selecting only four outstanding books from decades of reading.
In this list, I considered those that were a milestone for me in some way, and I will explain each of them briefly to make it more straightforward. These choices speak a lot about my literary taste, my way of looking at life, and my way of presenting some of the content that will appear here.
Dom Casmurro — Machado de Assis
“My obvious aim was to tie together the two ends of my life and restore adolescence in old age. Well, sir, I could not recompose what was or what I was. If the face is the same, the countenance is different in everything. If I only lacked the others, come on; a man consoles himself more or less for the people he loses; I lack more, and this gap is everything.”
Machado de Assis — Dom Casmurro
One of Machado de Assis’s masterpieces, published in 1899, Dom Casmurro offers…
