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integrity through its exploration of the human condition within complex societal
and historical systems, allowing for subjective responses to its depiction of
fundamental human concerns. Ondaatje’s 1987 novel In the Skin of a Lion
presents a ‘human’ order within its exploration of a range of perspectives with
the protagonist Patrick Lewis’ tying together of the novel’s various narrative
threads. Exploring the individual embedded in the colossal structure of civic
modernity, the novel explores the lives of migrant workers in early 20th century
Canada, its use of a fragmentary, fluid structure with subtle poetic prose
allowing for a complex depiction of the human condition. Opening up the
possibility of a history based on the humanity within the historical, Ondaatje
explores a cubist multiplicity of perspectives to illuminate those voices lost in
history.
Ondaatje’s novel In the Skin of a Lion explores the human conditions through
its cubist multiplicity of subjective perspectives, allowing for the possibility of a
history as an intricate ‘night web’ of interconnected stories, focusing on the
individual experiences imbedded in a larger historical structure.