Let's think about how genius it is - just for a second - that Yann Martel managed to give an Indian boy a French name that was metaphorical not just for the ocean of his Rite of Passage but also for the infinite cycle of narration in this novel.
A moment of silence, please.
Ah, there.
Piscine = a pool, a body of water.
Pi = a Greek symbol, a never-ending decimal beginning 3.14...
Pi, the character= the first layer of narration in this novel which leads to almost endless possibilities of what you can take from this story.
It's brilliant, really.
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