Volume 50, Number 5 · March 27, 2003
The Man, or the Tiger?
By Pankaj Mishra
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Harcourt, 319 pp., $25.00
Halfway through Yann Martel's first novel, Self (1996), the young first-person narrator abruptly decides to write a novel that will 'address this matter of God.' This sounds a bit whimsical at first. It appears to be part of the same impulse to startle the reader that makes Martel leave some pages blank in Self, or fill several of them in his collection of stories, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1993) with nothing more than the words 'blah-blah-blah-blah.'
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