5/24/2023 0 Comments Life of pi by yann martelHaving visited the country many times, the writer said he hasn't seen such diversity as India anywhere else. The 55-year-old author's love for India is not new, and he described it as a "thought provoking" and "philosophically engaging" country. It makes you suspend your disbelief, a religion makes you suspend your disbelief. That said, Martel noted that ultimately it was his quest to understand the "mechanism of religious faith" that made him write the book. He added that "India nourished him" at a time when he was "drying up". The novella he mentioned is ‘Max and Cats’ by Brazilian writer Moacyr Sclair. and 'Life of Pi' came to me all in one moment basically," he said. “And I am on the top of this rock when a rock came together, it made me remember a novella I had completely forgotten about and its premise of the shipwreck and I thought I could do something here. saying to myself 'I am in my 30s, I have written two books that had gone nowhere, I am screwed'.” "I was on this rock at a hill station near Mumbai looking at life. Speaking at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival, the Man Booker prize-winning author called India as the "major influence" for ‘Life of Pi’, and shared the story of how the basic idea of the book dawned upon him when he was standing on a rock at a hill station near Mumbai. After having written two books "without reaching anywhere", famed author Yann Martel was distraught for the lack of a new idea, and then ‘Life of Pi’ came to him "all in one moment" of clarity.
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