Would you tell us more about the origin of your most celebrated novel, a masterful recounting of the biblical story, The Alchemist?
It is not a biblical story, it is based on the Arabian Nights. I was trying to understand myself, and the only way you can do that is by using a methapor. I start writing it to see my our path, and it turned out to be that it was everybody’s path.
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Someone told me you were rude in it, with unbelievers. I can’t remember this. I did not read The Alchemist as a biblical story. It couldn’t be at that time. I won’t have read it… And Bible is already written, isn’t it?
Using metaphor is a holly way to be understood by all. Maybe Shehrazad blood is falling in our veins.
Using metaphor is a holly way to let hear some words, that can’t be accepted without the form.
With Love.
Dear Paulo,
I believe that whenever we do, what we love, it comes from our heart.
And what does the heart say? The truth about ourselves and this truth shows us the way to follow.
Follow our dreams, our destiny.
Of course not everybody is eager to do it, but those who are, will experience things they would never expected.
It seems like as You wrote in the Alchemist something is conspiring in our favor.
Something or Someone.
If we could only listen? If we could only trust?
……………
The path is so unreal,
so unknown..
Desire…
so dangerous..
Do you still want to go?
……
love
Agnieszka
beautifully put!
The Alchemist was a very special book to me, I read it second, after The Pilgrimage - because I saw that the Pilgrimage was more biographical and I wanted to know Who was writing as much as to read a story.
I loved The Alchemist so much and I read it to my 8yr old child, who beamed with big smiles to interrupt only twice through the whole book, both times were to say; I can SEE the Shepherd boy ….!!
It is the unlocking of imagination, or the opening of the mind’s eye, and it is one of the things which keeps a person going into books
and because the book comes from the same place in another person
it is the beauty of an artist
and everyone
to meet there, in that place
even though the pictures, significant words or meanings, are as varied as the individual minds conceiving, perceiving, or receiving them.
and it is the vulnerability of an artist
to expose the mind for all to see
the art of
and the love for the art of
communication
bringing out what is inside.
Love to you, sir
Love to all
Dear Paulo,
What a fantastic man you are. I am greatly inspired by your charitale deeds, words of love and fabulous books. I am currently studying on an English course and still have found no other author that moves me through his/her writing as you do.
The Alchemist is by far my favourite book, certainly life changing. It was leant to me by a maths teacher of mine and since then I have grown stronger in myself and wanted to help others as much as I can.
It is amazing the power of words carry, I wish you all the best in the future and all my love.
Likewise, other readers. xx xx
How true it is, for one and all, that we already are that for which we search.