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Alan Bray
Mar 2, 20234 min read
The Moved Heart - The Cat's Table
If you wanted to write a story about the adventures of an eleven-year-old boy taking a journey to a new home on an ocean liner in the...
Alan Bray
Feb 23, 20235 min read
The Seductiveness Of Cigarettes and Coffee - The Cat's Table
So in The Cat’s Table, is one of the memories that the narrator has about his younger self a memory of sexual awakening—the time when he...
Alan Bray
Feb 16, 20233 min read
View Out The Back - The Cat's Table
Last time, we talked about the omniscience of the narrator in Cat’s Table. The narrator, the older Canadian writer originally from Sri...
Alan Bray
Feb 9, 20233 min read
Ark of the Story Arc. Ack! - Cat's Table
The Cat’s Table, like other stories by Michael Ondaatje, is episodic in structure. The term episodic fiction refers to a set of episodes...
Alan Bray
Feb 2, 20234 min read
The Cat's Table
This week, a new novel, Michael Ondaatje’s 2011 The Cat’s Table. It is the story of an adult narrator telling the story of a voyage taken...