(veja a versão em Português logo abaixo)
I read Clarice for the first time when I was a teenager, it was The Passion according to G.H. I’m not sure if it was an school assignment or for curiosity (I guess the latter). And I read much more after that, but I have to admit that there [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Brasil’
9 September 2009
Why in this world, a biography of Clarice Lispector
23 June 2009
One Thousand Casmurros
Just to change the subject a little bit, but not that much. At the end of 2008, the biggest TV Channel in Brazil produced a TV show based on the book Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis. To promote the show, they created a website called Mil Casmurros (or One Thousand Casmurros). — Casmurro is [...]
19 June 2009
Biblioteca Brasiliana
O site da Biblioteca Brasiliana (sim, a do Mindlin) está online desde o dia 4 desse mês. Parece que a equipe está a todo o vapor digitalizando os livros. Não dá pra não ficar animado, não?
Since 4th June the website of the Biblioteca Brasiliana it’s online. It’s the biggest private library that was donated in [...]
4 May 2009
News from Brazil
I’m in São Paulo right now, preparing to a seminar in Rio de Janeiro next week about Brazilian Publishing History. If you want to know a little bit more, there is some information in English, but everything else is in Portuguese. I was taking a look at the programme and it’s really amazing to see [...]
3 February 2009
1000 novels everyone must read (in English, I guess)
A while ago the Guardian published a list of 1000 novels everyone must read. Eduardo de Freitas from theca libraria took the effort to make some analysis and find out that only 5 titles were written by Portuguese speaking authors (3 by Brazilians and 2 by Portuguese, none African). Morevover among the 123 titles in [...]
26 January 2009
Jorge Amado re-launched
“[...] the process of world relauching of Jorge Amado works has started – until 2012, when the his 100th anniversary is celebrated, his books will be back to Spain, France, Germany, and several countries from East Europe.”
“[...] começa o processo de relançamento mundial dos títulos de Jorge Amado – até 2012, quando será celebrado o [...]
19 January 2009
II Seminário Brasileiro sobre Livro e História Editorial
Agora vai! De 11 a 15 de maio vai acontecer no Rio de Janeiro o II Seminário Brasileiro sobre Livro e História Editorial. Eu fui no primeiro em 2004 e foi muito bacana! Tive a chance de dar uma olhada no programa desse ano (ainda não oficial) e a coisa promete. Espero muito poder ir, [...]
26 October 2008
Back to translations
There is a while since I’ve wrote here for the last time, although I’ve been posting through twitter quite often. I really miss bloggin more than a few characteres and also I feel that I have to share some interesting information about what have been happening in the last few weeks. For some this will [...]
20 July 2008
Week summary | Resumo semanal
Cover by Jez Burrows. 2nd place in the Penguin Design Award 2008.
For a ten days old blog without no real post I’m very glad with the more than 150 hits, thanks people. To keep things going I decided to post again the main twitter entries of the week. For those who still don’t know, I’m [...]
13 April 2008
Esse tal de copyright
Picture by James Glover (under creative commons)
Depois de passar três dias ouvindo gente prevendo o fim das leis de copyright tais como conhecemos hoje e de lembrar das histórias que envolvem a obra da Cecília Meireles e do Guimarães Rosa, é realmente para parar e pensar: porque mesmo existe esse tal de copyright?
