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 novel sends his family to Switzerland because he thinks his son resembles his drowned friend Escobar. (-5[1])This novel’s title character moves to the suburbs after the death of his wife Capitú, whom he suspects had an affair. (10[1])For 10 points, the “taciturn” Bento Santiago narrates what novel by Machado de Assis? ■END■ (10[1]0[3])