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Thomaz Amancio

@thomazamancio.bsky.social

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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 · 4h

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

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 4d

Ele amaria o MicroSoft PowerPoint

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 5d

"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 · 5d

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 · 6d

Enquanto joga Zelda

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 6d

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

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 6d

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

open.substack.com/pub/garapa/p...

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

Os sinais todos estavam aí

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 8d

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 9d

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 14d

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 · 15d

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

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 17d

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 · 17d

Ainda tô processando também! Rs

Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 17d

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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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 17d

Gostei muito. Vi na quinta e sigo pensando no filme, quero rever. Concordo que o primeiro ato tem essa energia mas acho que também é pq tem muita coisa acontecendo ali que precisa ser digerida.

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 17d

Cinismo? Achei o filme até romântico e certamente menos cético que o romance.

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 17d

Nossas categorias estéticas

Daniel K @daniel-k1.bsky.social · 17d

um tema já discutido (e pouco relevante), mas são curiosos os critérios de avaliação para as diferentes categorias do jabuti