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Yann Martel je kanadský spisovateľ, ktorý sa narodil v rodine kanadských diplomatov. Vďaka tomu už v detstve veľa cestoval a vyrastal postupne na Aljaške, v Kostarike, Mexiku, vo Francúzsku a v Kanade.

Po štúdiách na Trentskej univerzite v Peterborough v provincii Ontário vo veku 27 rokov začal svoju literárnu kariéru. Pokračoval tak v šľapajach svojho otca, ktorý získal v roku 1965 Cenu generálneho guvernéra za najlepšiu francúzku básnickú zbierku. Návštevy a život v zahraničí ovplyvnili do značnej miery jeho tvorbu.

Jeho prvou úspešnou poviedkou bola The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, ktorá sa neskôr stala základom pre jeho zbierku rovnakého mena. Roku 1966 vydal Martel svoj prvý román Self . Za svoj druhý román Plavba s tigrom získal cenu Hugha MacLennanna za najlepší román roku a o rok neskôr prestížnu britskú literárnu cenu Man Booker Prize.

V súčasnosti žije v Montreale a pracuje na svojom ďalšom románe. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. jún 1963  •  Ďalšie mená یان مارتل, Янн Мартел
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“Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans." Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi

“Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi

“Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi

“If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

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Yann Martel kniha Beatrice and Virgil

Zdroj: Beatrice and Virgil

“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.”

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Zdroj: Beatrice and Virgil

“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time." Page 212.”

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Varianta: I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
Zdroj: Life of Pi

“There were many seas. The sea roared like a tiger. The sea whispered in your ear like a friend telling you secrets. The sea clinked like small change in a pocket. The sea thundered like avalanches. The sea hissed like sandpaper working on wood. The sea sounded like someone vomiting. The sea was dead silent.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 78, p. 239

“An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to … kissing.”

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Zdroj: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 50

“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 25, p. 78

“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330

“My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 73, p. 230

“Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.”

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Zdroj: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 173

“Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 4, p. 17

“"Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 23, p. 76

“[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (…) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.”

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Zdroj: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 97

“It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 57, p. 179

“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.”

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Zdroj: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 114

“Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.”

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Zdroj: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 94, p. 316