----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet]Query about Abbe Faria... ========================================= Some items that may be of use:
1. Abbe Faria by Asif Currimbhoy . Writers Workshop , Calcutta, 1992. pp. 62, Size 23cm. ISBN:8171894402. It is a play depicting the human condition in a dramatic way so as to communicates the message effectively. Price: US$ 16.08 Available from: Books & Periodicals Agency, New Delhi, Phone 91-0-9811205624. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. From Goan Voice UK, 5 Feb 2000: Romeo Ferrao has for sale, copies a book, Life and exploits of Abbe Faria by Caetano Faria. London, Norwood Press. 1990? Illus., 34pages. �3.72 each. Contact him at 35 Lewis Silkin House, 10 Lovelinch Close, Peckham, SE15 1PQ. Tel. 00 44 207 358 0641. The book was reviewed in the G.O.A. (UK) Newsletter, vol.27 no.1. by Romeo Ferrao who writes: "Mr C.V. Faria, the great grand-nephew [and only surviving male relative] was married in 1942 in Bombay. He then emigrated to Kenya and later to England." 3. Romeo Ferrao sent me a typescript copy of a 28 item (1889-1979) bibliography on Abbe Faria which you should be able to get from him. 4. From my posting to GoaNet on 19 April 2002: Headline: The Big Picture: The Count of Monte Cristo Source: The Independent (UK) 19 Apr. 2002 at: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/story.jsp?story=286737 Released in the UK today: The Count of Monte Cristo. Extract from the Independent Review: Richard Harris plays Abb� Faria, a prisoner whose escape tunnel has taken a wrong turn into Dant�s's cell. While the pair get digging together, Faria schools Dant�s in economics, philosophy, swordsmanship and the delicate cuisine of flamb� rat, instruction that the younger man believes will equip him for cooking up revenge. But Faria warns him that the dish mightn't be as tasty as he expects. For a photograph of Richard Harris as Abbe Faria, go to: http://movieweb.com/movie/countmonte/ Not having read the book, I do not know if the flambe rat is the departure from the original but I am intrigued by the prospect that it might be based on the practice I have heard of - field rats (bandicoots?) being eaten in Goa. 5. Yes, Abbe Faria teaching Dante to eat rats! Will that debate be resurrected :-) 6. Joel D'Souza wrote at http://www.goacom.com/village/candolim/ Candolim is the birth place of Fr Jose Custodio de Faria, the famous Abbe Faria, the discoverer of Hypnotism and animal Magnetism. He was influenced by the 18th century Pinto's Conspiracy, which was a frustrated reaction of Goan native priests and laymen in the Portuguese colonial set-up. According to A Short History of Goa(1957) by C.F. Saldanha, S.J., "Fr Jose Custodio de Faria, of Candolim, had won a certain amount of influence at the Court of Lisbon, but on the failure of the conspiracy he escaped to France, where he made a name for himself among the fashionable and intellectual salons of Paris, by his theories on the occult sciences, which later developed in the science of Hypnotism, also known as Mesmerism." Abbe Faria got sucked in the vortex of the French Revolution, till he came to be imprisoned, and died of a stroke of apoplexy. He has been celebrated by the French novelist, Alexander Dumas, as Abbe Faria, in the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo." ======================================= Cheers Eddie Fernandes ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
