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Life of Pi
Navnet på Martels tiger, Richard Parker, er inspireret af en karakter i Edgar Allan Poes søfarts-eventyrroman The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). I denne bog er Richard Parker en mytterist, der er strandet og til sidst kannibaliseres på skroget af et omstyrtet skib (og der er en hund om bord, som hedder Tiger). Forfatteren havde også en anden forekomst af navnet i tankerne, nemlig i den berømte retssag R v Dudley and Stephens (1884), hvor et skibsforlis igen resulterer i kannibalisme af en kahytdreng ved navn Richard Parker, denne gang i en redningsbåd. En tredje Richard Parker druknede i forbindelse med Francis Spaights forlis i 1846, som blev beskrevet af forfatteren Jack London, og senere blev kahytdrengen (ikke Richard Parker) kannibaliseret.
Life of Pi
The name of Martel's tiger, Richard Parker, was inspired by a character in Edgar Allan Poe's nautical adventure novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). In this book, Richard Parker is a mutineer who is stranded and eventually cannibalized on the hull of an overturned ship (and there is a dog aboard who is named Tiger). The author also had in mind another occurrence of the name, in the famous legal case R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) where a shipwreck again results in the cannibalism of a cabin boy named Richard Parker, this time in a lifeboat. A third Richard Parker drowned in the sinking of the Francis Spaight in 1846, described by author Jack London, and later the cabin boy (not Richard Parker) was cannibalized.
Life of Pi