Nov 16, 2009

Life of Pi | Characters

The author's persona
Early and late in the novel, the author projects himself into the novel, speaking of "I" and how the novel came to be. The author shares little about himself, only that he is a writer from Canada with two books published prior to Life of Pi. These details are true of Yann Martel but in a book that accents the constructed nature of stories so heavily, readers cannot assume they are completely one and the same.

Pi
Pi, born Piscine Molitor Patel, is...