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Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel (2010) Summary - 3.18 ⭐️
Book 643: Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel (2010)
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Book at a glance: Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, published in 2010, is an allegorical novel exploring the Holocaust through an unconventional lens. Following the massive success of Life of Pi , Martel presents a thought-provoking and unsettling tale about a writer’s encounter with a taxidermist and his two peculiar animal characters, Beatrice the donkey and Virgil the howler monkey. The novel blurs the lines between fiction and reality, art and atrocity, in a deeply philosophical meditation on suffering, memory, and…
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