The starting point of this article is the theme of photography as a way of understanding the narrator in Dom Casmurro, a novel published by Machado de Assis 1899. By selecting important scenes centred on the image of a portrait (including paintings and photographs), the article develops the notion of "photographic-narration", which aims to emphasize the reiteration of hypotheses and of things remembered by the character Bentinho, referring to moments crystallized in time. The need of possession by creating an attachment to the images, as well as to moments relived through memory, highlights the character's inner struggle against forgetfulness, loneliness and life's ephemeral condition.
Dom Casmurro; photography; narration; memory; forgetfulness