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Introduction: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 426 Words, 2,706 Characters |
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Michael Ondaatje established his reputation as a poet some twenty years ago; winning the Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. His most recent novel, The English Patient, the 1992 cowinner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, assures Ondaatje a solid place in contemporary literature. It ma...
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...e believes leaves this novel seriously flawed. Editor and publisher Morton Kaplan, in his editorial, takes issue with Ondaatje's oversimplified and possibly distorted views of character and society as portrayed in the novel. The concluding commentary by poet novelist Cyril Dabydeen describes how Ondaatje's "eccentric lineage" and multicultural childhood have left a profound mark on his work.
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