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What is a man? What is a woman? How do the two meet? Just some of the essential questions Yann Martel’s re-released debut novel Self claims to address. For Martel the differences between the sexes are really not that extreme. In fact, one day our narrator wakes up without his penis and has become a
For those who have been asleep, Martel’s second novel won the Booker Prize. Life of Pi is an outstanding work that recovered admirably from containing the most pretentious first line ever written. Self does not fare so well. From the opening anecdote, our narrator’s earliest toilet memory - ‘it was a magnificent log of excrement' - it is not only pretentious but also profoundly tedious. Redemption is not even attempted until 100 pages in, when the aforementioned natural sex-change occurs. Unfortunately, little is made of this and the self-indulgent details of a boy growing up morph seamlessly into some rather mundane details of a girl reaching sexual maturity.
Other people‘s backpacking tours and love affairs are topics that will reliably bore to tears unless told well and. perhaps unwisely, Martel picks these as his main theme. The freshly- minted woman travels around. meets another woman, moves house, meets a man and so on.
Experiments like splitting the page for two voices never quite find their mark, and what should be a truly shocking climax is neutralised by our utter lack of sympathy for the protagonist. Self reads like a practice run. With the benefit of hindsight, at least it shows potential. (Anna Shipman)
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