Whos narrating italicized chapters in life of pi a piscine b mattei c fictional author d pi

C. Fictional author                         

The short italicized sections of the book contain the introduction of the ‘author’ of the book who establishes himself as a character in the text. It tells of his travels and adventures in the hopes of publishing a book. He already had two books that flunked and thus he traveled to Bombay. Here he became dejected as his goal to write about Portugal did not materialize. He wandered through India and reached the town of Pondicherry which was once controlled by the French Empire. He met Francis Adirubasamy who became a pivotal character and started the ball rolling to create a book that is ‘nonfiction’;  fact that was reestablished in other parts of the book with the same fashion.