Dom Casmurro 132.15 · 132.15

Comparação com naufrágio

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Assim, posto sempre fosse homem de terra, conto aquela parte da minha vida, como um marujo contaria o seu naufrágio.

Thus, although always a landsman, I tell that part of my life as a sailor would tell his shipwreck.

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The setting

The narrator compares his account of a part of his life to a sailor recounting a shipwreck, despite being a landsman.

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The narrator, despite being a landsman, recounts a part of his life with the vividness of a sailor describing a shipwreck.

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