5/11/2023 0 Comments Moacyr scliar life of pi![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's unabashedly religious, even a bit preachy it has long stretches with no dialogue, even longer descriptive passages and it can't decide whether to be whimsical or deep, so darts back and forth between the two. Not only that - it breaks virtually every rule of modern fiction-writing and gets away with it. In spite of all the comparisons and accusations, Life of Pi struck me as a startlingly original work, not easily slotted into any known category. And then there's the controversy over Martel allegedly "borrowing" the storyline from Max and the Cats by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar. Various critics have made comparisons to other works - The Jungle Book meets Lord of the Flies, for example (or even Timothy Findley 's Not Wanted on the Voyage). Yann Martel recently captured the coveted Man Booker Prize for his zoo parable Life of Pi, but even prior to that great victory his strange little book was generating a lot of buzz. ![]()
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