Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody descends into implausibility
- Written by Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
Wikimedia Commons, CC BYWhen I was a doctoral candidate at Oxford, I spent much of my time working in the papyrology rooms. Usually, my only company was the curator, a kind and learned Sardinian woman who is now a professor at the University of Milan.
One day, the news was that a famous novelist was coming to visit the Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection....





