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Post by emy on Jun 9, 2012 20:48:49 GMT -5
No doubt i am dense, but I'm already confused by the "author's notes." This is a work of fiction, but the notes seem to indicate there is a factual basis...or not?
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Post by What Hat on Jun 9, 2012 23:53:41 GMT -5
No doubt i am dense, but I'm already confused by the "author's notes." This is a work of fiction, but the notes seem to indicate there is a factual basis...or not? I would treat the author's notes as fiction.
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Post by emy on Jun 10, 2012 15:13:27 GMT -5
I think the sub-boards idea is great, but I don't think "what" or I have authority to create them. We're just moderators. Many times a book will have several themes which can be discussed separately, or chapters present different topics, or study questions in the book make for good subboard issues. I like the idea. Too complicated for us simple folk
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Post by dmmichgood on Jun 10, 2012 17:46:12 GMT -5
No doubt i am dense, but I'm already confused by the "author's notes." This is a work of fiction, but the notes seem to indicate there is a factual basis...or not? You aren't dense. authors use that ploy. But their ploy IS is also fiction. Like finding an old diary, susposedly factual or old manuscripts, the same -but it is all fiction
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Post by ScholarGal on Jun 11, 2012 11:51:13 GMT -5
The first time I read the Life of Pi, I made the assumption that the foreward and author's notes were a true story.
When I re-read the book, I read with the assumption that the foreward and author's notes were an additional fictional narrator inserted into the story. That assumption adds a new layer to the story, and it definitely changed my impression of the final few chapters of the book.
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Post by What Hat on Jun 11, 2012 12:02:09 GMT -5
And I believe that the author/ narrator continues into the first part of the story. In italics he talks about his meetings with Pi in Toronto, and what they were like - that Pi has a wife and a son (I believe). Then the book segues entirely into Pi's story.
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Post by Dubious Disciple (xdc) on Jun 11, 2012 12:54:49 GMT -5
The author's technique may be appropriate in this instance, since the book does have an agenda. He wants to make you question what is true and what is imaginary. More than that, he wants to make you question whether you WANT the book to be true or imaginary.
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Post by Scott Ross on Jun 11, 2012 14:29:03 GMT -5
And I believe that the author/ narrator continues into the first part of the story. In italics he talks about his meetings with Pi in Toronto, and what they were like - that Pi has a wife and a son (I believe). Then the book segues entirely into Pi's story. A wife, a son and a daughter actually......
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