High Life Issue #5

HIGH LIFE #5 February 2017 29 飞 文基乃小城大状，其父及祖父均为律师。然而，飞氏的 家族传统并不仅限于恪守法律。飞文基与其父飞历奇均 是才华横溢的作家，其创作更对澳门本地文化产生了不小的影 响。 与飞文基谈及其父、已故著名作家飞历奇时，话题自然而 然地转到土生葡语上。土生葡语是澳门独有的土语，混合了葡 语、粤语及马来语等多种语言元素，至今仍有土生葡人家庭通 晓土生葡语，惟人数已属凤毛麟角。 他解释说：“起初，我与澳门土生土语话剧团毫无瓜葛， 但先父是话剧团成员。身兼话剧团作家及统筹的飞利拉去世之 后，话剧团转而寻求先父为其创作剧本。” 飞文基目光微闪，进而忆述起他与父亲就剧本进行的长时 间讨论。飞文基坚称自己对编写剧本一窍不通。 “有趣的是，由于我对剧本评头品足并不断寻找新点子， 先父问我，不如你来执笔？” 无心插柳之下，飞文基的话剧团就此展开。在其领导下， 该业余话剧团的门票开始逐年售罄。 M iguel de Senna Fernandes is a successful lawyer. His father and grandfather were too. Their love and respect for the law, however, is not the only aspect that defines this family. Literary talent has also blessed the last two generations who have left a mark in local culture. It is while speaking about his father – the famous Macau novelist Henrique de Senna Fernandes – that Miguel, sitting at his desk, starts talking about his journey into the world of Patuá, Macau’s own dialect, which is a mixture of Portuguese, Cantonese and Malay spoken by the old Macanese families. “I had nothing to do with Doci Papiaçam de Macau,” he explains. “My father belonged to the group. When Adé dos Santos Ferreira, the manwho wrote and interpreted the plays passed away, the group wanted my father to write a script.” With a glint in his eye Miguel, as he likes to be called, explains how he and his father had long discussions about the play. Henrique had insisted he knew nothing about writing scripts.