Baragul
My blogs
| Industry | Maritime |
|---|---|
| Occupation | I write. |
| Location | மலாக்கா, Malaka, Malaysia |
| Introduction | ഞാന് യാത്രക്കാരന് എന്നാണ്. Sou um viajante curioso. Venho do Brasil. Viajo, leio, escrevo e observo. Observador itinerante portanto. I try to span in my imagination the width and breadth of the Indian Ocean that to me begins in the Atlantic on whose shores I grew up. |
| Interests | Brasil, Caribe, UMzansi, Asia Tenggara, Ελλάδα, കേരളം, مصر, 澳門. I like reading, writing and observing while I travel. |
| Favorite music | These are in fact books (the list is very long): My Story (Kamala Das); The World-Renowned Nose (Vaikom Muhammad Basheer); Running in the Family (Michael Ondaatje); L' Enfant de sable, La prière de l'absent, Un jour de silence à Tanger (Tahar Ben Jelloun); Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (Assia Djebar); El libro de las banderas de los campeones (Ali ibn Musa al-Maghribi Ibn Said, translated by Emilio García Gómez with original en face); Follas Novas (Rosalía de Castro); Amadís de Gaula (Anonymous). |
| Favorite books | More books: O homem que sabia falar javanês e contos (Lima Barreto); حکاية عبدالله (Munshi Abdullah - not yet read); Cien años de soledad (Gabriel García Márquez); A terceira margem (Guimarães Rosa); Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo); El Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges); El-Mahdi (Rites of Assent), Abd al-Qasim Hakim; El Libro de los Cronopios Ilustres (Julio Cortázar); Nini mulâtresse du Sénégal (Abdoulaye Sadji); Le discours antillais (Edouard Glissant); Bumi Manusia (Pramoedya Ananta Toer); Istanbul: Memoirs of a City (Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely); Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses (Yannis Ritsos translated by Edmund Keeley with original en face); Μυθιστόρημα (Giorgios Seferis); poems of Konstantinos Kaváfis (both translated in English and in the original); O Beco do Pilão (Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Paulo Daniel Farah); Max Havelaar (Multatuli); A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust); Dom Quixote (Cervantes); Marianna Sirca (Grazia Deledda); O Quinze (Raquel de Queiróz); The Path of Thunder (Peter Abrahams); Ségou (Maryse Condé); Pluie et Vent sur Télumée Miracle (Simone Schwarcz-Bart); This was the Old Chief's Country (Doris Lessing); As Reinações de Narizinho (Monteiro Lobato); Crime e Castigo (Dostoeivsky); Il Gattopardo (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa); anything by Fernando Pessoa; Los pasos perdidos (Alejo Carpentier); Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land; Noli me tangere (José Rizal); Antes que anochezca (Reinaldo Arenas); Juntacadáveres (Juan Carlos Onetti); Hombres de Maíz (Miguel Ángel Asturias); The Enigma of Arrival and A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul); Hans Christian Andersen's works; Fome and Os frutos da terra (Knut Hamsun); The World Falls Apart (Chinua Achebe); Une si longue lettre (Mariama Bâ); Actas da Maianga (Ruy Duarte de Carvalho); Terra sonámbula (Mia Couto); Mestre Tamoda (Uanhenga Xitu); L'amant (Marguerite Duras). |