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Beatrice and Virgil is Canadian writer Yann Martel's third novel. First published in April 2010, it contains an allegorical tale about representations of the Holocaust. It tells the story of Henry, a novelist, who receives the manuscript of a play in a letter from a reader.
- Yann Martel
- 224
- 2010
- April 6, 2010
Beatrice and Virgil. The High Mountains of Portugal is a 2016 novel by Canadian author Yann Martel. [1] [2] [3] The novel is split into three sections, each of which concerns a widower.
Beatrice personally appears near the end of the Purgatorio to take over as guide from the Latin poet Virgil because, as a pagan, Virgil cannot enter Paradise. Moreover Beatrice, being the incarnation of beatific love (as her name implies), is uniquely suited to lead the pilgrim into the realm of divine bliss.
- Bice (birth name)
- Simone dei Bardi (m.1287)
- Father: Folco di Ricovero Portinari
12 apr 2010 · VIRGIL: I'm impressed. BEATRICE: I know bananas. VIRGIL: Better than a monkey. Take the end tip of a common banana, then, and place it on top of an apple, taking into account the differences ...
29 mag 2010 · Henry, the protagonist of Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil, the follow-up to his Booker-winning Life of Pi, is a writer who decides to challenge the fact that no “poetic license was taken...
Yann Martel’s astonishing novel begins with a successful writer attempting to publish his latest book, made up of a novel and an essay. Henry plans for it to be a “flip book” that the reader can start at either end, reading the novel or the essay first, because both pieces are equally concerned with representations of the Holocaust.
30 apr 2010 · “Beatrice and Virgil” is a box of tricks, filled with historical and literary references. In “The Divine Comedy,” Beatrice and Virgil are Dante’s guides to paradise and hell.
