Yann Martel, "The High Mountains of Portugal"
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
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Martel won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi, a novel that was at once an iconic seafaring adventure, a moving portrait of human-animal bonding, and an enactment of spiritual questions. In his fifth novel, the author of Beatrice and Virgil and The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios takes another magical plotline-the search for a lost treasure-and gives it a philosophical underpinning. Tomas, living in Lisbon in 1904, finds a journal that sets him on a quest. His actions come to bear decades later on a Portuguese doctor investigating Agatha Christie and, still later, on a Canadian senator who’s come to Portugal to mourn his wife’s death.
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He is not only eloquent, but very humorous also. "I chose the number 227 because it is a prime number. The number 227 is only divisible by itself or by 1." Then a reader points out to him that 22 divided by 7 is Pi. So, at the next lecture he asks the audience, "The number 227 is a prime number. Did you also know that 22 by 7 is Pi?", as if the thought occurred to him spontaneously, and not the reader. I thought it was very funny. Be that as it may, Yann Martel is a brilliant speaker. His novel Life of Pi , which I have read three times, is one of the "Ten best novels" I have read in the last sixty years. (I am seventy-seven years old now.) I like Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, V S Naipaul, Jane Austen, Arundhati Roy, and R K Narayan; all of them are great writers. Thank you very much for uploading this fascinating video.
Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Loved this talk! Yann Martel is a terrific public speaker.
Josh Weiner yeah that's why he's a writer!
wow...so eloquent. loved his book and the film.
I hate to contradict Yann Martel, whom I admire as a writer. But I am surprised that he said, “Christianity, unique among religions, you have an incarnate God who dies. Which doesn’t happen in religion.” Gods do die in Hindu religion. I think Yann Martel, who knows quite a bit about Hinduism, but perhaps not in great detail, did not know that the Hindu God Krishna of the epic Mahabharata, died at the end of Mahabharata. Krishna dies when a hunter mistakes Krishna’s foot for a part of deer and shoots a poisoned arrow which strikes Krishna in the foot. As a consequence, Krishna dies a painful death. Krishna says to the hunter, "O Jara, you were Vali in your previous birth, killed by myself as Rama in Treta Yuga.” Also, in the Hindu epic Ramayana, Lord Rama dies by drowning himself in the Sarayu river near Ayodhya. Both Ramayana and Mahabharata describe Ayodhya as the capital of the Ikshvaku dynasty of Kosala. So, in Hindu religion, at least two gods die.
Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
Thank you so much for this! I just finished the book, and this made for a wonderful epilogue.
I really, really want to do this guy
He's so smart. I want to do him so bad.
Emily Kuzin do it then!