by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist is an unabashed delectation and inspirational wonder. This fable is a sheer conflation of spiritual quest, existential puzzle, lovely sensitivity, and deep strength. Rarely, do I come across a story with such a candour and chasteness: It lifts the reader out of time and focuses through a believably unlikely tale on a young dreamer looking for himself. Paulo Coelho gives you the inspiration as well as the divine guidance to follow your own dreams by seeing the world through your own eyes and not someone else’s.
"WHEN YOU REALLY want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true." These words echo throughout the novel The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. The novelist urges that one should not shy away from his dreams and to find our personal myth and our mission on earth is the way to find God, happiness, fulfillment, and is the ultimate purpose of creation.
The novel unfolds the tale of a boy named Santiago, who has a dream and the commitment to pursue it. After heeding to the portents, the boy ventures in a journey of exploration and self-discovery, symbolically searching for a hidden treasure. The Alchemist is a stimulating novel that bursts with optimism; it is the kind of novel that reinforces that everything is possible as long as the person really wants it to happen... Coelho lays great stress on good omens throughout the novel and his protagonist unlearns that those who read most are not necessarily great observers and that it’s the observation that man can learn which books fail to teach. Coelho writes: "Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them."
In his journey to unknown and unseen lands, the young Santiago sees the greatness of the world, and meets all kinds of exciting and crazy people; from kings to paupers, impersonate to genuine, and know-all to down to earth people, and eventually The Alchemist. However, towards the end of the novel, he discovers that ‘treasure lies where your heart belongs’ and that the treasure was the journey itself; the discoveries he made and the wisdom he gained. This is the core of The Alchemist’s philosophy and a leitmotif that echoes Coelho’s writing all through the novel. The secret of the fictionist’s success lies in the way he pronounces the entire tale, incisively what we want to hear or rather he wants us to wish, yearn and dream without any fear of defeat, and follow them (longings) till we get them. It is also emblematic that Santiago finds the secrets of wisdom in the wilderness of the desert. Santiago discovers himself verily and finally.
The Alchemist is a novel that appeals instantly, because we can easily identify with Santiago: as all of us have dreams, and are dying for somebody to tell us or inspire us, that they may come true. And if you are down and out it will help you immensely to come out of all that rut and feel positive and great about yourself. The novel deftly combines words of wisdom, philosophy, straightforwardness of meaning and language, which makes it undoubtedly intelligible and also pleasurable.
The Alchemist is an unabashed delectation and inspirational wonder. This fable is a sheer conflation of spiritual quest, existential puzzle, lovely sensitivity, and deep strength. Rarely, do I come across a story with such a candour and chasteness: It lifts the reader out of time and focuses through a believably unlikely tale on a young dreamer looking for himself. Paulo Coelho gives you the inspiration as well as the divine guidance to follow your own dreams by seeing the world through your own eyes and not someone else’s.
"WHEN YOU REALLY want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true." These words echo throughout the novel The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. The novelist urges that one should not shy away from his dreams and to find our personal myth and our mission on earth is the way to find God, happiness, fulfillment, and is the ultimate purpose of creation.
The novel unfolds the tale of a boy named Santiago, who has a dream and the commitment to pursue it. After heeding to the portents, the boy ventures in a journey of exploration and self-discovery, symbolically searching for a hidden treasure. The Alchemist is a stimulating novel that bursts with optimism; it is the kind of novel that reinforces that everything is possible as long as the person really wants it to happen... Coelho lays great stress on good omens throughout the novel and his protagonist unlearns that those who read most are not necessarily great observers and that it’s the observation that man can learn which books fail to teach. Coelho writes: "Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them."
In his journey to unknown and unseen lands, the young Santiago sees the greatness of the world, and meets all kinds of exciting and crazy people; from kings to paupers, impersonate to genuine, and know-all to down to earth people, and eventually The Alchemist. However, towards the end of the novel, he discovers that ‘treasure lies where your heart belongs’ and that the treasure was the journey itself; the discoveries he made and the wisdom he gained. This is the core of The Alchemist’s philosophy and a leitmotif that echoes Coelho’s writing all through the novel. The secret of the fictionist’s success lies in the way he pronounces the entire tale, incisively what we want to hear or rather he wants us to wish, yearn and dream without any fear of defeat, and follow them (longings) till we get them. It is also emblematic that Santiago finds the secrets of wisdom in the wilderness of the desert. Santiago discovers himself verily and finally.
The Alchemist is a novel that appeals instantly, because we can easily identify with Santiago: as all of us have dreams, and are dying for somebody to tell us or inspire us, that they may come true. And if you are down and out it will help you immensely to come out of all that rut and feel positive and great about yourself. The novel deftly combines words of wisdom, philosophy, straightforwardness of meaning and language, which makes it undoubtedly intelligible and also pleasurable.
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