![]() Like the random French castaway Pi meets near the end. *In Magical Realism, the author retains a basic level of realism – a lifeboat, hunger, animal instinct – but inserts fantastical elements. Genre: Allegory, fable, adventure, magical realism, postmodernism Ideas, people, religions – anything with the spark of life – all follow, to some degree, the pattern of messiness and depravity and hope in Martel's novel. Meaning, the story doesn't limit itself to Pi. In the title, Martel reminds us both of the continuity of life and the openness of Pi's story. Pi himself might not be immortal, but his story is. ![]() That would have denoted a single life." ( Jennie Renton, "Yann Martel Interview") And so I didn't make the title The Life of Pi: I deliberately left out the definite article. ![]() But why isn’t it called ‘the life of Pi’? There's also the glorious Parisian swimming pool, the Piscine Molitor, which apparently made a lasting impression on Pi's uncle, Mamaji. For starters, there's π, the "elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe" (1.5.41). Pi's name has a few rich associations in the novel. ![]() Explanation: The title, of course, refers to our protagonist Pi, whose full name is Piscine Molitor Patel. ![]()
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