InfluenceLOW
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket influenced Life of Pi
Added by Media Influence Map · 7 October 2026
The influence
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Book · 1838
The work it shaped
Life of Pi
Book · 2001
The evidence
Yann Martel named the tiger Richard Parker after a character in Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, a shipwrecked sailor who is eaten by his fellow survivors.
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