Agostinho Fernandes
Agostinho Fernandes | |
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Born | Escola Médica Cirúrgica de Goa | 2 July 1932
Period | c. 1962–2007 |
Relatives | John Claro (brother) |
Agostinho Fernandes (2 July 1932 – 29 June 2015) was a
Biography
Fernandes studied at the
Works
Fernandes's most famous work is the Portuguese-language novel Bodki (1962). In the words of Everton V. Machado,
The constant clash between modern convictions of the elite raised in a Christian environment and the popular beliefs among the lower social strata of Goa must be re-emphasized within the set of Indo-Portuguese themes, as is very clearly illustrated in the novel Bodki ... In it, a young physician from the capital finds himself confronting the superstitions of the people of a village, especially those who marginalize the bodki, a Hindu widow, considered to be responsible for all the bad happenings that took place there.[2]
Fernandes was involved in journalism in
References
- ^ Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues, 'Agostinho Fernandes: The forgotten man of letters', Navhind Times, 5 July 2015, http://www.navhindtimes.in/agostinho-fernandes-the-forgotten-man-of-letters/.
- ^ Everton V. Machado, 'Indo-Portuguese Literature and the Goa of its Writers', in The making of the Luso-Asian world: Intricacies of Engagement, ed. by Laura Jarnagin, Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, 1 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011), pp. 229-38.
- ^ Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues, 'Agostinho Fernandes: The forgotten man of letters', Navhind Times, 5 July 2015, http://www.navhindtimes.in/agostinho-fernandes-the-forgotten-man-of-letters/.
- ^ COSTA, Aleixo Manuel da. Dicionário de literatura goesa. Instituto Cultural de Macau, Fundação Oriente, 3 v., 1997.
- ^ Agostinho Fernandes, Por além do além (Goa: Third Millennium; Editora Terceiro Milénio, 2007).