Yann martel is one of the world renowned writers of this century by his novel Life of Pi. Beatrice and Virgil is a story of Holocaust but the approach is eccentric. The painful result of World War II particularly the Holocaust is dealt by very few people except by historians and biographers. People hesitate to talk about the suffering of Jewish people, even after half a century which signifies the agony of Jewish people. As a non-Jewish author of the Holocaust he has to clarify about the genre and the choice of the narration (usage of animals for the story ) to his readers in the novel itself. Depth of the theme is dealt through semiotics and the interpretation depends on the readers it may be of surface level or deeper level, and also induces them for their further reading of the history of the period. Skillful application of various narrative techniques of the author demonstrates the theme in a distinct way

Holocaust, Jewish people, agony, genre, semiotics, allegory, aesthetic value