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For obvious reasons, I won't go into the story here (it's even more twisted than "Life of Pi"). Just this much: The narrator (he or she??) tells episodes of a life of a kindergarden-, highschool-, college-, and university-student who has lost his parents early in life, travels a lot and loves twice.
But back to the beginning. The humorous kick-off has you turning the pages, wanting more, and before you know it the plot has taken on a serious side that you weren't prepared for. Before you can wish back the hilarity, though, you are on page 107 and ... BANG ... you are so puzzled that you HAVE TO keep on reading, wishing to understand!
The writing is excellent, experimental at times with French, Spanish, and - later on - even Hungarian mixed in (with double columns). Sometimes you look up from the book and wonder how much of it is autobiographic (hoping - for Y. Martel - that fiction makes up the greater part).
As opposed to "Life of Pi", you cannot solve everything that puzzles you throughout the book at the end. It rather leaves you wondering, waking up in the morning with questions revolving in your head. ... and with the urge to write a review on Amazon ;-)
WARNING: potential spoiler:
I am the type of person who doesn't fare well to unpredictable sexual violence - especially when it is explicit. I think many other women (and hopefully men too) are sensitive to this, I am deeply disturbed when a book or any kind of media entertainment shows or describes detailed sexual violence without any kind of prior warning. Therefore, future readers of this book beware - I wish I had been warned before stumbling upon this unpleasant section, which has now left unpleasant images lurking in my mind.
If you read "Life of Pi" and are expecting another novel of a similar genre, don't read "Self". But if you want to read another brilliant novel by Yann Martel, and go into expecting it to be different (just reading the back of the book should evoke this, with the questions it offers the reader before the story even begins), then read Self and look deeper into it than the surface story. If you do this, Self can become an even greater novel than Pi.
Happy Reading!
But then I read it... here is some of the best quotations I have read...
"Love is a form of childhood in the way we become capable again of being wholly enthralled, able to believe so much so easily so intensely"
"--- the sort of friendship where a separation of time and space is merely a pause in an ongoing conversation"
I can quote so many others well written phrases by the Author. The book is an extremely well written, well organized exploration of the human mind.. it touches every feeling you ever thought you had in you.. it shows you the thin line between what actually happens and what takes place in our own imagination.
I would recommend this book... and next on my list to read would be other books by Yann Martel....
There is no doubt that sex (and quite explicit for that matter) plays an important part in Martel's foray into understanding the dichotomy of humanity. However, he is not covering any unknown territory. If you can read the sexual content as part of the larger context of identity crisis, you will find that Martel is absolutely compelling, even illuminating about human nature.
Why should a reader cheer Pi more than the protagonist of 'Self'?
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