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Yann Martel

"Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel." — L'Humanité

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Yann Martel

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  1. "Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel." —L'Humanité "A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

  2. Yann Martel • b. 1963 - Spain • First published The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a collection of short stories • Writing career took off with Life of Pi • Mann Booker • Best seller; 41languages • Movie • 4 Academy Awards

  3. Setting: The Emergency. • Indira Gandhi was India’s Prime Minister - 1966 • Election scandal • State of Emergency • New Elections

  4. Pi’s father - nervous. • Moving to Canada • Stop in Tomatlán, Mexico

  5. Impact of Setting • Religion • “A story that will make you believe in God.” • Link between stories and religious beliefs.

  6. The French Quarter: Pondicherry, India

  7. Munnar, one of the Hill Stations in India

  8. Pondicherry Botanical Gardens

  9. The Pondicherry Promenade

  10. Life of Pi can be classified as: • a postcolonial novel • a work of magical realism • a coming-of-age tale • an adventure story • flirts with nonfiction

  11. The Importance of Storytelling A story… within a story… within a story 3 Frames • First, author’s note • Then, life on sea • Then, true(?) story

  12. Motifs(situations, incidents, ideas, or images repeated significantly in a literary work) • Territorial dominance • Though Martel's text deals with the seemingly boundless nature of the sea, it also studies the strictness of boundaries, borders, and demarcations. • The Will to Live • This is a story about what humans will do to stay alive • The Nature of Truth • By the end of the story, readers question factual truth versus metaphoric truth. • The Nature of Faith • characters achieve comfort through the practice of rituals • For Pi, faith is a form of certainty; he dislikes agnostics because they refuse to commit

  13. Symbols • Pi’s name • Not just a shortened version of Piscine • Allegorical figure with multiple levels of meaning • 3.14 (22/7) (infinity) • The color orange • symbolizes hope and survival

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