Give me a break!… Romanians have no less optimism than any other European people and talking about making plans, I bet they ask for being posted in Top Ten! In my view, Coelho’s message has nothing to do with countries, politics, or Gross Domestic Product. As he says, actually, so I do not insist on that.

Anyway, Coelho adds something for a country like Romania in his last book — somehow. While fiction writers like Olivia Manning, Sydney Sheldon, Saul Bellow or Barbara Wilson (Sjoholm) put an action going on in Romania just as an pretext, knowing nothing or knowing irrelevant or untrue things about that country, making Romanians to feel ashamed, describing Romanians in a negative manner just for the sake of it, Coelho gives them the sensation he knows them. But this is maybe the difference between a writer and a “fictionist”, between creating fiction and making fiction, whatsoever.

Bringing Romanians in discussion, it is good to know that they have writers attacking fiction from the same direction as Coelho. I’ll point the finger to Mircea Eliade, well known for his scientific work, less known for his fictions.

Chus
Yes, beautiful isn’t it. I’m British. For me, there’s only one race - the human race - and it is not a competition!! hehe

Love x