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Prof Delfim Correia de Silva, professor of the Portuguese language at the Goa University will speak on Epitacio Pais’s novel Preia-Mar (Hide Tide) at an event being organised by the Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture of the Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science and CLP/Camoes, Panaji.
Preia-Mar (‘High Tide’) is a novel set in Goa. From a privileged yet impoverished family, the protagonist Leo tries to strike it rich by any means possible in the Goa of the 1970s. Moving through various strata representative of the society of his times – new ascendant classes linked to smuggling, mining and politics, hippies tired of the West in search of drugs and spirituality, the fishermen of the coast and repatriates from Idi Amin’s Uganda, the novel reaches a climax that defies local tradition even as it calls into question the principles of the new order.
Epitácio Pais (1926 – 2010) is an Indo-Portuguese writer from Goa, described by Vimala Devi and Manuel de Seabra as “a short story writer of great vigour, whose prose is terse and suggestive. He feels the world around him in all its poetry and tragedy”. The bulk of Pais’s writing was done during the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1961. Appearing in the surviving Portuguese-language newspapers or broadcast on the programme “Renascença” of the Goa station of All-India Radio, Pais’s narratives dealt with the shifting social, political and economic situation in the Goa in the first years of Indian rule.
Book discussion
Chowgule College, Margao
April 9, 2016 from 5 pm onwards
