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Alan Bray
- Mar 2
- 4 min
The Moved Heart - The Cat's Table
If you wanted to write a story about the adventures of an eleven-year-old boy taking a journey to a new home on an ocean liner in the...
Alan Bray
- Feb 23
- 5 min
The Seductiveness Of Cigarettes and Coffee - The Cat's Table
So in The Cat’s Table, is one of the memories that the narrator has about his younger self a memory of sexual awakening—the time when he...
Alan Bray
- Feb 16
- 3 min
View Out The Back - The Cat's Table
Last time, we talked about the omniscience of the narrator in Cat’s Table. The narrator, the older Canadian writer originally from Sri...
Alan Bray
- Feb 9
- 3 min
Ark of the Story Arc. Ack! - Cat's Table
The Cat’s Table, like other stories by Michael Ondaatje, is episodic in structure. The term episodic fiction refers to a set of episodes...
Alan Bray
- Feb 2
- 4 min
The Cat's Table
This week, a new novel, Michael Ondaatje’s 2011 The Cat’s Table. It is the story of an adult narrator telling the story of a voyage taken...