扬•马特尔(Yann Martel)
一九六三年出生于西班牙,父母是加拿大人。幼时曾旅居哥斯达黎加、法国、墨西哥、加拿大,成年后作客伊朗、土耳其及印度。毕业于加拿大特伦特大学哲学系,其后从事过各种稀奇古怪的行业,包括植树工、洗碗工、保安等。
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?
Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.
1,为什么说这是一个能让你相信上帝的故事? 相信有动物的那个故事,和相信上帝,在本质上是一个道理的。 相信上帝并不是因为有确切的证据证明上帝的存在,而是在事实并没有支持,事实甚至在反对这种信念的时候(日心说,演化论及其他)仍然相信,不然这就不是信仰,...
评分若不是因为布克奖的缘故,我很可能会将之当成一本讲圆周率的数学普及读本而不幸错过。然而圆周率也未尝同整本小说没有关联,Yann Martel在一篇采访中说:“我选择Pi这个名字,是因为这是个不理性(irrational)的数字,然而科学家们还是利用这个不理性的数字达成对宇宙的理性认...
评分读完Life of Pi,厘清了不少看完电影后产生的困惑,也愈加佩服Yann Martel。他不仅讲了一个精彩的故事,而且文笔出色,读的时候经常有满满一页都想抄到笔记本上的冲动。 不少人读完此书后,花了大笔精力探讨第一、第二个故事孰真孰假。可我却觉得,全书的前1/3更值得细细品味。...
评分《少年派的奇幻漂流》(《Life of Pi》)是加拿大作家扬.马特尔的一部畅销小说。此书获得了2002年的布克奖。李安将这部被称为“不可能拍成电影”的小说拍成了同名电影《少年派的奇幻漂流》。电影利用了3D技术,视觉效果极其震撼,还带有些许的悬疑奇幻色彩,成为了一部叫座又叫...
评分The book had been on my bookshelf for quite some time ,but never seemed inviting enough for reading and I didn't even know what it was about . Because of my recent reading of the Call of the Wild and White Fang , I had this sudden interest in books that h...
Magical and wildly good.
评分只有在死亡临近之时,道德才不会陷入两难。如果不是先看电影应该会更好呢。
评分仍然记得当年坐在德班的电影院里看电影时候的震撼,一直想读原文,没想到时隔几年才花了3个月把原文看完了,所有的事情只有去做才有实现的可能,生存也好,阅读也好,在绝境中坚持,正好现在也碰到了大问题,希望能慢慢的和Pi一样的度过去。感觉可以再读的一本书。话说李安增加了一些原著没有的情节,加上电影的特技呈现的一些想象,书和电影都很喜欢,各有不同
评分Magical and wildly good.
评分Magical and wildly good.
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