Random House discussion questions
University of West Florida's discussion questions
something from a site called Free Patents Online
I honestly did not understand this review.
a link of poetry by Ondaatje
From Shelley: a piece on Divisadero from The New Yorker
Reviews of Divisadero:
by Pico Iyer in the New York Review of Books
by Elizabeth Waddell in the Quarterly Conversation
at Bookishness by Charles Matthews
at Kim Werker
1 comment:
All the questions suggested by Dana Morency on the UWF blog ask us to dissect the book as though Ondaatje was writing the novel as a problem solving procedure. My feeling about the novel, after reading it, is that it is more revery than solution. All the relationships and issues brought up in the plot line exist to illustrate the major overriding theme of the story..which is the combination of tenuousness and intensity that characterize our relationships with those around us. Ondaatje writes about the isolation of the characters and yet weaves them together with the fragile connection of a spiders web. To approach an analysis of this work as though it can be solved like a math problem looses the essential quality of the piece... which has a very dream-like feeling to it. The events are related in the way that we traverse a dreamscape. We float through a series of images...some brutal, some beautiful..not knowing what is real and what is not. At the end we are left with the partly told story of the characters as they exist in their own bubbles of isolation. and reflexion.
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