In this novel’s seventeenth chapter, the protagonist has an imagined conversation with the worms that chew up manuscripts he is researching. After reading the Panegyric of Saint Monica, a character in this novel recalls the line “Life is lost, the battle still is won!” from a sonnet he failed to write in seminary school. In Helen Caldwell’s translation, this novel’s protagonist compares his lover’s eyes to a tidal “undertow.” This novel’s protagonist earns a (*) derogatory nickname after critiquing a poet’s verses on the train. After attending a performance of Othello, the narrator of this (10[1])novel sends his family to Switzerland because he thinks his son resembles his drowned friend Escobar. (10[1])This novel’s title character (10[1])moves to the suburbs after the death of his wife Capitú, whom he suspects (10[1])had an affair. For 10 points, the “taciturn” Bento Santiago narrates what novel by Machado de Assis? ■END■ (0[3])