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 edited book is The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema and the Arts (The University Press of Florida, 2025). She coordinates the project ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin financed by a European Research Council Consolidator grant and co-coordinates the project RESILIENT – Forest Cities: Utopia and Development in the Modern Amazon, financed by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.