*This is what the journalist-author Ben Antao wrote from Canada in 2009 (Victor Rangel-Ribeiro could probably tell you more once the sun rises in his part of the world):*
*From:* Ben Antao <ben.antao@rogers. com> I just picked up the book from my bookcase and read the autograph that Joao da Veiga Coutinho wrote on the flyleaf "To Ben Antao: Best regards. I hope you get as much pleasure out of my book as I got from yours. Dec 1997". He was referring to my memoir *Images of Goa* published in 1990. When he visited Toronto in July 1999 with his wife and son, I met him at the hotel and we had lunch. He was quite frail going on about 81 or 82. I had a passerby take a photo of us, but you can't see the face clearly as he was wearing a cap. I read his book many times, in small doses; it's what I call a meditation on the Goan condition. I'd written a short reflection on it, which is saved in my old computer. I'll look it up later and may send it to you if interested. Here are a couple of quotes from the last chapter Genesis. 2. "There is no single way of being Goan. The history of which we are the product has impacted different groups in different ways. It is geography and biology that have given the term such unity as it seems to have." In a yellow lined "Post it" note stuck on the flyleaf, he wrote: "I would appreciate a short list of potential serious readers--if it is not too much trouble. Thanks. JdaVC" End of quote. FN On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 20:24, Duarte Braga <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, I am writing a paper on João da veiga Coutinho's impressive book *A > Kind of Absence*. There is very little biographical info on him, > can anyone please help me with some info? I was also wondering if there are > other writings by him/on him, since it is very difficult to gather info on > him. > Best wishes > > -- > > *Duarte Drumond Braga* > > > > Investigador | Researcher > > Centro de Estudos Comparatistas | Centre for Comparative Studies > > Faculdade de Letras | School of Arts and Humanities > > Universidade de Lisboa | University of Lisbon > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAHP3%3D7_4uEv4E2%3DFFETsnNhQp%2B5HzB84O_KLb9Ko3SHQt3v71g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAHP3%3D7_4uEv4E2%3DFFETsnNhQp%2B5HzB84O_KLb9Ko3SHQt3v71g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAMCR53JsBooNbZJciPvGBQoGH1dK8GxK5%2B4Eo7gz4WAV%2BR%2Bv8g%40mail.gmail.com.
