Would Frederic Noronha’s post of December 2015 on J. V. Coutinho not help you to find some missing links? Sharmila. Sent from my iPhone
> On 26-May-2023, at 9:30 PM, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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/F75531A4-DB50-4145-939A-C5438FA83A94%40gmail.com.
