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Alan Bray
- Dec 10, 2020
- 4 min
Migration
An interesting thing to note about Lion is that four of the characters—Patrick, Hana, Caravaggio, and Clara—appear in Ondaatje’s next...


Alan Bray
- Dec 3, 2020
- 4 min
Poorly Drawn Boy
In The Skin of a Lion has not one but two scenes in which Patrick Lewis is sketched. Early in the story, his father Hazen “outlined the...


Alan Bray
- Nov 26, 2020
- 4 min
In Which I Define Life
In a previous post having to do with a different book, I wrote about What Do You Do When I Can’t See You—that phenomena in fiction of the...


Alan Bray
- Nov 19, 2020
- 4 min
The Mysteries of the Model Author
Let’s consider some implications of the narrative style of In the Skin of a Lion. Umberto Eco suggests that a text contains three...


Alan Bray
- Nov 12, 2020
- 5 min
Zoom
Last week, I threatened to write about In the Skin of a Lion’s narrative structure. Going to do it today. The book is often described as...


Alan Bray
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
In the Skin of a Lion
This week, a new story, Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 book, In the Skin of a Lion. At times, the past becomes bit murky, but I believe I first...