A review by alex_watkins
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

3.0

This book was very short and a quick read. I'm not sure what it was though. Part autobiographical, the story of author with writer's block who begins to help a strange man with his writing. Suddenly the book is over and though things are revealed, motivations are completely incomprehensible and unsatisfying. Basically the writing is good, and it is a nice almost philosophical little thing, but ultimately unmoving. Also I thought Yann Martel was Asian until I saw his picture in the back of this book.