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Thomaz Amancio

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A fool abroad. Working on how fieldwork in the plantation shaped Brazilian literature and social science. Teaching fellow UChicago.

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · May 19

Escrevi sobre Guerra - I, primeiro volume da trilogia de Beatriz Bracher sobre a Guerra do Paraguai, e minhas frustrações com esse projeto que parecia promissor.

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 2d

And what's more, he does it twice:

"The demon replied, 'Make a wish!' The fisherman was happy and asked, 'What shall I wish of you?' The demon replied, 'Tell me how you wish to die, and what manner of death you wish me to choose.'"

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 2d

There's this scene in Haddawy's translation of the 1001 Nights that's literally Nathan for You's "I hope you're hungry... for nothing" moment:

"When the demon heard the fisherman, he said, 'Be glad!' The fisherman cried, 'O happy day!' The demon added, 'Be glad that you will soon be put to death.'"

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rangel @rangelgandrade.bsky.social · 4d

amigos, acaba de ser publicado meu artigo na revista o eixo e a roda da ufmg sobre o cruising noturno na poesia do roberto piva

O caçador da noite: O cruising noturno na poesia urbana de Roberto Piva | O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 4d

Trocaria o Graciliano pelo Jorge Amado nessa lista, mas é por aí.

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 9d

Ele amaria o MicroSoft PowerPoint

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 9d

"You would say, Ovid's Metamorphoses is really
good. I respond to you: Ovid is a crazy teller of tales!"

Savonarola would have been a poster.

Metamorphosis plays a particularly significant role
because it is a miracle of love; it is joined with all sorts of fabulous subjects,
Christian as well as pagan, to suggest the divine emerging from the natural." It
is no surprise, then, that the late fifteenth -century Dominican reformer
Savonarola objected to images based on Ovid for newly wed couples. In one of
his sermons, he exclaimed, "You would say, Ovid's Metamorphoses is really
good. I respond to you: Ovid is a crazy teller of tales!"

(from The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe)

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 10d

Not to be a contrarian, but I'm actually more excited about this one than the Pynchon.

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 10d

Enquanto joga Zelda

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 10d

Aaah, que legal! <3 Vou falar pra Ana hahaha

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 11d

Ensaio da Garapa desse mês, provando mais uma vez o que eu disse abaixo:

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 11d

This one got here just in time to offer some support in this quarter's Humanities core teaching.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 11d

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 11d

Os sinais todos estavam aí

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 12d

Teaching Ovid in the core I always go back to Herbert's "Apollo and Marsyas," a poem that I could never shake since I first read it many years ago:

www.kencraftauthor.com/apollo-and-m...

“Apollo and Marsyas” by Zbigniew Herbert – Ken Craft

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venceslaugama.bsky.social @venceslaugama.bsky.social · 12d

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 14d

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 17d

Lorentzen on the new Pynchon is pretty good:

www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...

If the Gumshoe Fits

The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen

www.bookforum.com

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 18d

Tendo em vista as indicações que o livro recebeu nos prêmios literários, reposto aqui minha resenha.

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · May 19

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 18d

It's funny when you are reading an Inquisition trial and realize that the witness is the most famous Brazilian poet of the age, Gregório de Matos Guerra (1636-96). It was a pretty anodyne statement: he was friends with the accused but seemed to want no trouble with the Inquisition...

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 19d

Triste que o finado twitter literário BR foi quase todo pro substack e não sobrou muita gente aqui.

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 21d

Os mais recentes (Bleeding Edge, Inherent Vice) são muito divertidos, IV em especial acho ótimo ponto de entrada. Mas se quiser encarar os tijolos super vale também, Gravity's Rainbow ou Mason & Dixon. Contra o dia pode ser um pouco demais pra quem não tá disposto rs.

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 21d

Ainda tô processando também! Rs

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 21d

Tô lendo Bleeding Edge e agora com o filme do PTA sinto que tô passando por uma renascença pynchoniana pessoal. Fiquei muitos anos meio de bode do Pynchon mas agora tem algo encaixando de novo.

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