Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armou like back and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly
Patrícia Vieira is Research Professor at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra. Her most recent monograph is States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture (SUNY UP, 2018) and her most recent co-edited book is The Mind of Plants (Synergetic, 2021). She is currently Principal Investigator in the project ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin financed by a European Research Council Consolidator grant.