Life of Pi Yan, 'Life of Pi' is told from two alternating points of view, the main character Pi in a flashback and Yann Martel himself, who is the "visiting writer" (Martel 101) interviewing Pi many years after the tiger in the boat story. This technique of the intrusive narrator adds the documentary realism to the book, setting up, like a musical counter-point, the myth-making, unreliable narrator, Pi. The reader is left to ponder at the end whether Pi's story is an allegory of another set of parallel events. The novel is a work of fiction set in the summer of 1977 that
Yann Moix novel as well as the Prix François Mauriac from the Académie française for "Jubilations vers le ciel" in 1996. In 2013, he won the Prix Renaudot for "Naissance". Moix directed three films, including "Podium", based on one of his novels. Since 2015, Moix has been a host on "On n'est pas couché", a television program. He also writes for the magazine "La Règle du Jeu". Yann Moix Yann Moix (born 1968) is a French author, film director and television presenter. He is the author of ten novels, and the recipient of several literary prizes. He is the director of three