Goan Literature A KIND OF ABSENCE The book entitled A KIND OF ABSENCE:
Review by Benegal Pereira Email: cammot@empire.net Life in the Shadow of History by Joao da Veiga Coutinho whose forthcoming publication was briefly noted some months ago and more recently at greater length on Goa-Net IS NOW AVAILABLE. "These pages, says the author in his preliminary remarks, are about a little tribe called Goans and their history. They witness to a search for a theory of that history and an attempt to give shape to an individual existence lived in its shade. They are musings, fragmentary in part, explorations.....There are shifts in register and ...direction ... but the questions remain the same. There are more questions than answers..... because questions must be asked and multiplied and lived with before there can be answers. And because answers matter less than questions when the questioning turns to quest." Some appreciation's: G.V.Coelho says: '...a searching excavation of relics of Goan history....sparkling with brilliant images....lucid and elegant... emblematic of exilic conditions in our postmodern world'. Victor R. Ribeiro: 'A Kind of Absence needs to be read and discussed. It is an invaluable contribution to the serious side of Goan writing.' Jaime deMello: 'I encourage every Goan who wishes to look beyond the shallow...and sometimes deceiving surface of Goan-ness to read A Kind of Absence to gain a deeper insight...To add our own questions to the list already introduced by the author. Orders and inquiries should be sent to: Yuganta Press Publishers e-mail:Nazareths@aol.com Ralph Nazareth of Yuganta Press Price: US $9.95 plus $2.00 postage and handling (6% sales tax in Connecticut). Author's e-mail: bkwebber@aol.com Copies of the book "A Kind of Absence" are
available at the "Pride of Goa" in Toronto. |