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Alan Bray
Dec 10, 20204 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, 20204 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, 20204 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, 20204 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, 20205 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, 20204 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...