![]() ![]() ![]() In Scliar’s earlier novel, a boy shares a life raft with a jaguar.Īh, such is the plight of foreign-language authors, no matter how prestigious in their homelands, when their work enters the unforgiving and disinterested cultural orbit of North America. As almost everyone knows, Martel’s book features a boy sharing a life raft with a tiger. Scliar would probably be even less well-known to American readers if Martel had not appropriated the central conceit for his Man Booker Prize-winning 2002 novel, The Life of Pi, from one of the Brazilian author’s most famous books, Max and the Cats (1981). ![]() Considering the corrosive critical reaction Yann Martel received for his most recent novel, last year’s Beatrice and Virgil, it may turn out that his most lasting contribution to literature will lie in accidentally alerting English-language readers to the existence of Moacyr Scliar, who died yesterday at the age of 73. ![]()
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