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Ewa apesar dos seus sofrimentos sempre foi uma pessoa que fez parte do superficial
I loved Ewa. The fear, how smart she was, her efforts to escape and to love Hamid. Great character of a woman trapped in a certain lifestyle which she cannot live without, but does not fully feel happy with. Powerless to change the direction she is set out on. Like the men in her life.
Ewa – her personality in the book feels very real. A woman does get bored shopping all day, and usually does gain confidence and feel very productive when given the chance to prove their abilities. There is also the chance of finding out the darkside of your partner, and then having to plan a way to escape. To me Ewa seemed to have been brought up thinking that a woman’s life is complete with a man by her side.
No he visto que nadie haya comentado nada sobre ,en realidad no fue escrito por usted pero fue narrado . Luego de leer esas narrasionnes dadas en presencia de su esposa al escritor espanol Juan arias, puedo afirmarle que lo persigo en sus escritos por doquier, lo conoci en ese libro tal como usted se desnudo el alma. Todos sus libros los he leido y pasdo a mis hijos y nietos a quienes les gusta la lectura. Le admiro por su personalidad y produccion. Mis respetos.
Her fear led her to Hamid, which was a way out because she could replace Igor and protect herself simultaniously, which seems to be good solution to the problem, tough I believe it limits her freedom. If that´s not the only solution, what else can she do to move on?
What type of character is EWA? She cannot stand alone and be a winner? She has to take refuse in another man Hamid and risk his life. In this case where Igor is so determined and ambitious Ewa seems to be a looser.A typical contrast.
Ewa never knew what she want, or she was not fighting enough for have her own way.
I was sorry for her because she did not love any of her two husbands, and sorry she died the way she did. Not much to say about her. Maybe the situation was too intrigued and complex for her simple mind.
I was thinking at the lack of action, reaction of Ewa. She knew Igor was a murderer, but she seemed paralysed as if under the effect of a snakes gaze a victim. Maybe here is the liknk with Ewa, paradise, and the cunning evil snake…
Namaste,
Many people in this book were motivated by fear, but Ewa was the extreme. She couldn’t even walk away gracefully… she had to find a replacement, a protector, if you will, to replace the madman she left. I didn’t really understand her motivations… when she left, she didn’t follow her dreams. She seemed to hide in Hamid’s world instead of finding her own way… she was locked in a prison of her own design. A very sad person.
Love to you
What is wrong with you all people! I don’t think that Eva is one- dimensionally wrong,weak and evil. She loved the guy, that Igor and without her he would not have achieved what he had achieved. She left him only because he changed and started thinking he is God and he has the right to take someone’s life.I don’t think she was interested in fame or money either, she had more than enough money with Igor. She could not stand being alone and that’s why she ended up with Hamid. She tried to love him and I think to a degree she did.I don’t think she ever got over Igor although she was terrified of him. Her mistake was that she did not share it with Hamid and left Cannes to save themselves.
Dear author,
I really enjoyed the book. But I found Ewa’s character to be a bit on the weaker side particularly because of our indecision and taking a long time to react.
Finally, why did Ewa leave Igor? She was afraid of him being a killer after the incident with the drunk man in the restaurant, or because she wanted the fame and the glory etc.?
The character of Ewa seemed sp similar to the character of eleven minutes. It might be bold to say but were the character based on librans? ;-)
By the way I enjoyed the book.
Love
Dhaval
In Virgos, like me.
Ewa:
Tragic person in her incredulity and imposibility to realize how deep evil can be.
Superficial in some way, weak and ready to postpone vital decisions, full of insecurities.
Oportunist and user she pulls down the drain Hamid with whom she choose to stay not because of love but because of comodity and keeps from him true Igor’s nature because the truth will lead for more correct and sincere relationship.
Not highly inteligent as she chooses wrong way when she mildly tried to protect Hamid.
I do not like her because I recognized some of my weaknesses in her person.
Paulo is Genius, in his books, the religious/spiritual theme is always there, in different aspects of course, and so for this book also. The forces of Good and Evil, can’t help to associate it to Male and Female, having named the woman Ewa, deriving from Eve, Evil.
I am sure Paulo does not think woman are evil, but religion has depicted so. With Adam and Eve, and the forbidden fruit…
Outside of religion, woman, the female energy is associated with the moon, and night, eve/evening, darkness. Whereas the man, is associated with the positive energy, the sun, light. Yin and Yang. Not to say that the feminine energy is bad because it’s dark.
Although each one of us I believe do posses both energies. Religion manipulated this concept for control and power.
Ewa, I think, is worried about making a scene that would upset Hamid and spoil his chance to success.
However she has underestimated Igor. She should have reacted to the same feeling of fear that made him leave him years ago. She should have talked to Hamid and warned him of Igor’s personality.
In a sense Ewa is very much like a character in a classical tragedy: she guesses what is happening and yet does nothing to change fate.
Dear Anne-Claude,
truly spot on.
Love
Paulo
Dear Anne -Claude….I would never put Ewa in a classical tragedy as for me she just doesnt think, there is no evidence of any real thought process going on. If you think about main classical tragedian heroes as Hamlet, Lear,Macbeth – they are thinking all the time…albeit their thinking is flawed or influenced.
Ewa does do something – she leaves Igor….but she doesnt follow up this action or talk to Hamid, or even warn Hamid. I think she is weak..but then she has to be or the story would be different.:))
with love
Dear Mr Coelho
I have just finished the book.I want to explain Ewa in a few words:
Coward,spoiled(by everyone),a person with delay to undrestand important things,frigid,lack of sense of humor,the last person I like to meet in the world.The story just needs her to come to an end,nothing else.
Love & Respect
Homeira
I have known two different cases of people being married with a psychopath….
It is not easy to make a diagnose.. Some are very cunning and manipulating.. They may carry an aura of mystery and they behave in a way that makes the other person feel ‘special’. If the appearance and culture is seductive, the bond and Eros become an obsession, a ‘suffocating relationship’. At the beginning it seems a .. dream, a unique, special relationship, but gradually it shows the real face of it. It is then a prison and fear overtakes.
The ‘Igors’ do not know that they are ‘sick’, they lack ‘balance’. ‘Ewas’ at the beginning feel so .. flattered to have awaken so much .. passion. But everything in extreme must make us being ‘suspicious’! Because the Spider weaves its net around its victim day by day and then the victim may never find a way out..
Love is trust, freedom, respect and to be open to the other’s person needs and desires. A game of giving and receiving freely. We all have a part of Igor and Ewa inside us. We may ‘kill’ others using our ..destructive, creative, desires, thoughts! May we always are ‘well wishers’ even to those who offend us, hurt us and betray us.
LOVE,
Thelma.
i’m agree with you thelma,but she knew also igor better that anyonelse,it was her power,she didn’t use it.so why she didn’t say the reality to hamid, she used his love,his trust.
She does not discover that Igor is a psychopath from one day to the other. It is a development. Yes, she still stays with him for two years but this is not to forget that they have spent almost 20 years together. you don´t just leave the person you spent half your life with from one day to the other. even if you think he is psychologically imbalanced it is hard to accept the possible truth and even harder to deal with the consequences. I see Ewa as a women who is not after wealth at all, she just happened to meat Hamid and he felt in love with her. She was not in love with him but felt secure in his presence and it was a solution out of her situation. Yes, some might say, she should have had the power to leave Igor on her own without the certainty of having “someone” instead, but that´s the reality. It´s easier to close a chapter in our live when we feel secure and certain that we can or already did open the next one. We cannot stand the void in between, where we would have to rely on ourselves.
Dear Kerstin,
I agree with your interpretation.
Ewa at first was unsure about Igor and then took refuge in a new relationship. This was in a way one of the possible doors (not the only one) out of the nightmare that became her life with Igor.
Love
Paulo
What I can’t understand is why Ewa does not prevent going to the beach with Igor. She is the only one that exactly knows how cruel and dangerous Igor is – and then she leaves with Hamid and Igor the party where they were safe among a lot of people and they accompany Igor to a lonely beach. I could tore my hair because of Ewas dullness at this point of the story.
Why does Ewa run with open eyes into the catastrophy?
Dear Monika,
it’s true that she knew Igor better than any other person – that’s why she consistently says to Hamid that she wants to leave the party in the beginning.
And throughout their whole conversation – they only go outside because Hamid and Igor decide. Ewa all along is trapped on their male fight.
Love
Paulo
Who was her character based on?
She is not alone in this. I know quite a few people in the same situation, although not married with a serial killer
They’re all psychopaths!
Pity for those who don’t understand the truth, Stories for children and Grand Children: My question lies… Who are the children of the anoint(4)________ Is Carolena? You are the only one who could shed a light on this situation…
P.
(the illuminate)
Aren’t we all a bit like all the characters at one time or another in our life?
It’s interesting Paulo, how you can layer and layer characters and circumstances… There’s a bit of every type of person in most of your characters. Very intriguing.
I find Ewa to be an almost shallow character. Although she knows Igor is a psychopath she remains with him for two years even though she is seeing Hamid; this sprites Igor to go on his killing spree in Cannes to destroy worlds. She has moved from one powerful relationship to the next, without loosing out on her goals. While in Cannes she never lets the police know what she knows leading to her destiny at the end of the book.
Kealan, I have not studied Ewa yet, but from what I remember from the first read, wasn’t it that she was not happy with Igor, because he never payed any attention to her, that he was always busy with his work and company, that everything was always more important to Igor than she was. Maybe she started seeing Hamid because she felt that Igor didn’t love her… I’ll have to read more for more insight.
She discovers Igor is a psychopath but she still leads him on for two years… She creates an even more difficult situation for herself by being unfaithful; even if he was busy Igor is a mad man!
Love and prophet concerns prevails all…
I’m confused, she discovers he’s a psychopath, but she knew when she married him??
Annie,
I agree with what you are saying.
You are a beautiful soul.
Love
Is this a book about someone I know? I have to get this book as soon as possible. (I’m still holding the Alchymist in my hand :-) )
(S)
I think that neither religion nor society associate woman with evil and man with positive energy.
Women gave and give birth in more than one way to the light !
I hope not! I’m just going by the words Eve, Eve-ning, Ev-il…
And why has society been predominately Patriarchal, woman is not good enough to be included in the Trinity? A woman is, after all, a giver of life. Just some similar questions that pop up while thinking about this. That’s all.
love
Namaste Marsha,
Her weakness was that she couldn’t stand being alone. Her weakness was her perpetual dishonesty with her husband. It kept her aloof. It kept her from living. She was afraid for good reason while she was with Igor, but she never healed. Her fear seemed transferred to Hamid as well. It infected him as well… his fears that she didn’t love him. His fears that she would leave him. Honesty may have saved them in the end, but we’ll never know. She wasn’t evil, by any stretch of the imagination. She was ruled by fear. Fear is not a solid foundation for a life. Been there, done that myself. :-)
Love to you
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