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33 Responses to “Your Opinion on the Narrative Structure”
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dear and respected Paulo..
first of all wishing positivity and happiness to you..
i loved Brida.. i could connect with the characters.. i’m in love with Magus :) just one thing seemed as a miracle that she met with more than one soulmate in one life.. but ya on the other hand, miracles happens only if you believe in them. thanks for taking me to that other world..
take care sir.
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Respected Paulo,
I got over with “Brida” a couple of days back. The ending didn’t really turn out to be as I was expecting it to be. Rather it was against my dreams and my imagination of the perfect dreamland I have always wondered about. The parallel universe I live in. I have never been in , well, a relationship or love. But, I have always believed that someday, I will meet my soulmate. All my life, till now, I have believed that you meet many people in your life, like then, get attracted to them, etc. Some you deeply like. But, you fall in love just once, with your soulmate and spend your life with that person. Now, after reading “Brida”, it’s ending, all that I have believed in, all my life seems to be not that true.
Can you please answer this one question, I can’t seem to find answer for… Why did Brida leave the Magus, ( rather, the Magus asked her to leave), when they knew they were each other’s soulmate and they were, I guess, in love as well??? Atleast, the Magus was..
I just want to know this because it has been days that I got over with “Brida”, but I have not been able to, rather, absorb the ending. Whereas, I believe I loved the ending, but I don’t think I’ll be able to accept it, untill and unless I know why it happened the way it did???
I did really appreciate if I can get an answer for this.
Thanks alot.
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gaurry Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I agreed with your opinion of this book ,I too felt confused of the ending although I don’t think Brida must marry her soulmate,but what’s the main idea of the ending what Paulo have managed ?I can’t understand the meaning of this book either ,apart from the words :how to find your soulmate ……I feel heartbroken for it .how long should we pay for looking for our solemate and did he or she really exist in our lifetime?how can I recognise him ?certainly I ‘d recognise him but if he continud against my way ,should I still believe in him as my soulmate?where is my soulmate ?how many soulmate will appear in my life ?and will they still keep appearing one by one ?
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I was reading this book and when I was on page 178 the book went to page 147 and after 31 pages came to 178 again. After 178 was the last page of the book. Everything happens for a reason. I wonder what the reason for this was.. Interesting.. :)
I really liked what I had read so far. Hope to read the rest..:)
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Brida é um livro de cabeceira. Mesmo com todos os tesouros que encontramos em “O alquimista” e “Diário de um mago”, Brida é excepcional. Nos ensina a correr atrás de nossos objetivos, enfrentando nossos medos,cientes de que há um DEUS que nos acompanha e que grandes conquistas estão resevadas àqueles que enfrentam o bom combate.
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Regina Xavier Reply:
November 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Faço minhas as suas palavras. Realmente, Brida é tudo de bom! Como eu disse em outro comentário, ela pra mim é uma bússola.
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the book has exactly the required nuber and quality of words.
Not one less.
Not one more.
I like it.
Love
Chris
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esse livro também é muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuito bom, claro foi paulo coelho quem escreveu.ele como os outros fala de coisas que me interessam muiiiiiiiiiito.
eu queria muito ser uma bruxa.
um dos meus sonhos é esse mas a minha lenda pessoal é conhecer paulo coelho pessoalmente tocar nele tirar fotos com ele.
seria o dia mais feliz da minha vida, pena que esse meu sonho nao irá realizar-se.eu tenho muita pouca fé.mas é bom sonhar.
todos os dias eu sonho com ele, como seria o meu encontro com ele.
de tanta pouca esperança eu choro.
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Amazing read,
The tradations, Soulmates, the visible & the invisible, a quest fulfilled and the sincerity to acheive it. The live characters.
Thanks Paulo, Brida is one of the best gifts i have given my God Daughter(22).
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Essenzialmnte fantastico, ti cattura fin dalle prime pagine. I flashback utilizzati sono sorprendenti. Entrano nella vita della ragazza, la inondano di piacere unito alla consapevolezza di dover fare qualcosa,di essere diversa e di doverne andare fiera perche’ e’ come se i suoi sentimenti, tutto cio’ che vive giorno dopo giorno debba avvenire perlopiu’ in ricordo di chi ha vissuto quei tuoi stessi sentimenti in quelle stesse situazioni,di chi li ha palpati, li ha trasformati e fatti evolvere,li ha resi propri trasmettendoli a chi ne avrebbe fatto lo stesso tesoro: scoprire l’anima delle umane sensazioni, degli umani sentimenti-troppo trascurati dalla gente. Si cattura questo dalle parole che vibrano di concretezza quasi come se ci rimporoverassero- noi lettori, scrittori, avvocati, camerieri, disoccupati, studenti, etc. di essere cosi’ rapidi nell’abbandonare il senso di vivere umanamente, mettendoci il cuore, buttandosi a capofitto e provare il gusto di vivere il passato che dovrebbe essere assaporato proprio dai sentimenti di chi li ha vissuti prima di noi, di chi ha sofferto come te, reagito come te, piangere come te e pensato che nessuno al mondo avrebbe mai e poi mai capito come ci si sente: Il piu’ fatale errore umano.
Sono una ragazza di 17 anni da poco compiuti. Non so se qualcuno mai leggera’ , se capira’ se avra’ interesse nel leggere cio’ che io vivo respirando i libri perche’ li amo tanto e sono per me un rifugio di pensieri, di lacrime, di risate e di soddisfazioni.. Scrivo umilmente i miei pensieri e spero siano accettati come eguali a quelli di voi adulti. La profondita” dell’ essere non ha eta’..anzi, piu’ ci si invecchia ,piu’ essa diminuisce fino a rimanere soffocata dalle “indigestioni adulte” tranne pochi casi..forse ci vuole allenameno ? o magari speranza nell’essere liberi e non appesantiti dalle stravaganze moderne. =)
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i really loved this book, i took my time to read cos i didnt want to finish it too quickly (actually i didnt want it to end at all)… i think a lot of people, especially women, will relate to Brida emotionally and others emotionally and even spiritually. For me, Brida is just like me, she’s taken a path i wish i could take and her emotional journey is quite similar.
the end came a bit to quickly for me, it was a bit abrupt. you didnt write about her dreaming of a dress only that she had a dress made by her mother at the initiation so she had to have dreamt of one to get that far. i honestly thought she would end up with the Magus but i’m glad she ended up with Lorens, i thought he was a better match, they complement each other (ying and yang)
i’m grateful for the book, it was pure bliss and it came to me at the right time (like all ur books seem to do to a lot of people).
i know you wrote this book in portugese a while ago, how come it was only just published in english?
many thanks!!
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Namaste,
The structure of this work is magical to say the least… pun half intended. :-) Mostly we are blessed with Brida’s perspective, but occasionally the perspective slides to one of the other characters in the book… even to the book seller who’s role, although pivotal is minor. I liked that a lot. It brought a fullness to the work. It’s also multilayered. On the surface we have Brida’s story, but in the shadows lies the story of Magus and Wicca which brings the work to a full circle. Then there’s the life of magic itself… Brida’s lover being a scientist makes Brida a go between as well between the rational of science and the irrational of magic. The marriage of the two creates a quantum effect which I loved. I know there’s much more. That’s why this work is so hard to put into words. It’s as deep as the ocean even though it’s superficially simple, like the Tradition of the Sun.
Love to you
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When I first saw Brida on a bookshelf, I was afraid to read it. At the time I was with a man whom I loved very dearly, but whom I did not consider to be my soulmate. The idea of reading a book about finding ones soulmate, while I was with someone who was not, was too difficult to swallow.
When he and I parted ways, I knew it was time for me to read the book. As I read it, I was astonished; Lorens was my old boyfriend - pragmatic, atheistic, yet very kind and respectful of my love and search of Spirit. He was a solid structure of kindness, and expressed the Divine qualities of love and joy that most spiritual seekers strive for.
The Magus represented to me my ideals of Love. He was the mysterious one whom I’d been longing for my whole life. The person without a face, but with such magnetism and inward connection to me that I had often thought of nothing else. As I read on, Brida’s blind, determined search for her Partner had remarkable similarities to my own. And I saw her independent, strong study of Magic as my own individual spiritual and artistic search. I waited for her to finally realize who was right there in front of her, and to run off with him, blissfully.
Then I realized what was happening. Lorens was being just as equally loving and kind to Brida. He was just as solid a force as the Magus; perhaps even more so, as Brida had learned to love Lorens. Had she met two soulmates in one lifetime? Had I?
The conclusion of the story was very toilsome for my heart - I had expected Brida to victoriously run off with the Magus…or rather, I wanted her to. Here I had refrained from reading this book while I was with my Lorens, fearing that Brida would end up with The Magus…and then she stays.
I did not stay with my Lorens. But I dedicate my interpretation of this story to him.
And my Magus has not surfaced, either. And really, that’s alright. I am trying to rid myself of expectations, anyway. And expecting to find ones soulmate in the dark woods or over several bottles of wine or in a twinkle of an eye or by a bonfire…well, the Universe will inevitably surprise you anyway, so why keep looking over your shoulder?
Merci, Paulo.
xoxo
Alana
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I’we read Brida a few days ago and I was surprised of its similarity with the legend of Lilith. The fact that a soul could be split in parts is not an occult subject at all. There is just another interpretation of the bible. In a passege of the book it is stated that at first there was the woman and the man(the passege that was at the base of the Lilith legend). But then it is written that the man should not be left alone and so Eve was created from Adam. Even though Eve was created from the body of Adam it reffers to the soul itself. Adam and Eve were immortal at that time and the only thing that is considered immortal in this world is the soul itself. In the old legends it is considered that at first there was another woman at Adam’s side, Lilith, which decided to run away from him. She was punished for calling the name of God, but the legend said that God didn’t killed her. She remained immortal not as Adam and Eve.
The culture of the moon and the sun from the book is another similarity with the legend. The fact that the culture of the sun represents experience, Adam himself is sometimes associated with the sun and ironically he had the experience of loosing his first wife. Eve is associated with the moon, and the tradition of the moon represents the wisdom, the one that Lilith ignored when she left Adam in spite of the consequences. Lilith in the astrological terms is associated with a Dark Moon and is the empty focus of the ellipse described by the moon’s orbit. It is not an object itself but the people who hear for the firts time this term are thinking at another moon, one that is in the shadow of the one we see every night. The moon that does not receive the sun’s light because another object is between them.( A love triangle between Eve, Adam and Lilith)
And now the similarity with the characters. The soul splits always in a woman and a man, that means there are always par numbers of soul framgents in the world. But in the book the Magus is left to live a lonely life. Brida is like Adam, she has to choose between the usual, obedient Lorens (Eve) and the mysterious, her much older half (reffering to the fact that he was born earlier than Lorens), the Magus( Lilith).
I stated above that Lilith was left to live an immortal life alone, without Adam. During the history Lilith appears in Mesopotaniam mythology, in a number of scrolls found in the Dead Sea,in the Folk Tradition, in the Greco-Roman mythology, Arabic mythology and even in the Classical German period( Faust, Goethe). She was considered a goddess, a prostitute, one that has sold her body in serch of a love like the one of Adam’s (reffering to the poem ` Adam, Lilith and Eve` by Robert Browning).
The other character from the book, Wicca, is the one that shows the most obvious connection between the legend and the book. Wicca is a neopagan, nature-based religion, Wiccans, as followers of Wicca are now commonly known, typically worship a Goddess. The Wicca religion expressed special reverence for Lilith. In the book Wicca was a woman that loved the Magus and she always had a special attraction to him, even though she knew that the other part of the Magus was Brida.
The ending of the book is exactly like the ending of the legend. Eve dies with Adam, even though she didn’t loved him, she was wise enogh not to leave his side. Lilith persisted, letting Adam to die and live a happy life in the company of Eve, for the sake of her love to him.
Maybe my interpretation of the book is one you could laugh your head off but is just an opinion of what is at the bassis of the creation of such a wonderful book.
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é inesplicavél a senssação maravilhosa de ler BRIDA a historia é linda
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i loved the book even though i dont know if i yet can believe what its saying but in the soulmate i love it i wish i can find my soulmate as easy as that but for sure i dont wanna meet too!
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Ler sobre o tema “outra metade” é um tanto sedutor especialmente nesses tempos onde a internet é um dos muitos meios para espantar a solidão. Tempos em que o amor é banalizado.Onde relacionamentos são líquidos e não sólidos.
Pessoalmente gostei muitíssimo da leitura, não me contentando em ler apenas uma vez. Falar de paixão, amor é excitante para quem escreve e principalmente para quem ama. No que tange aos enamorados, Brida é a resposta que procuravam.Você achou “A” pessoa. Já para os solitários, o livro deixa de ser uma narrativa e transforma-se em um sonho acompanhado de uma busca incessante pela “PESSOA”. Sonho que pode virar pesadelo. Aprendi a custa de muita dor que não existe “pessoa ideal” nem “pessoa certa”.
É um tanto poético esse discurso de “outra metade”, mas pouco realista. É lindo casar com o príncipe, mas é horrível conviver com o sapo.À propósito, todo mundo quer casar, mas ninguém quer permanecer casado.
Não, não acredito em “outra metade” ,”pessoa certa” , nada disso.Creio que você possa conhecer alguém e aos poucos, bem lentamente, construir um amor, uma relação de cumplicidade, de lealdade. Sim, eu acredito no amor.
Não, eu não acredito em conto da carochinha.
Gosto muito dos livros de Paulo Coelho porque ele consegue me prender do início ao fim. Já li Brida, O Alquimista, Veronika decide morrer,À margem do rio piedra eu sentei e chorei,As Valkírias e nem lembro mais quantos.Ah! Lembrei! O último que li foi “A bruxa de portobelo”.Excelente, por sinal.
Contudo, sem querer ferir a crença de ninguém,essa história que Brida retrata fica nos livros, crianças.
Acreditem e vivam esta máxima que aprendi lendo o grande Paulo Coelho:”Caminhante, não há caminho.O caminho é feito ao andar.” É a melhor maneira de viver e de lidar com o amor,o futuro e a vida.
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a beautiful book again by Paulo which depicts the beauty of soulmates, its mystery, somewhat how we ignore & how we cannot avoid it…Paulo you sure know how to vehicle the message of love expression through interesting themes…
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seus livros são ótimos inclusive este…
brida é maravilhoso.’
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…”certas bençãos de Deus entram estilhaçando todas as vidraças”…está lá escrito em “Brida”
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what do u think about reincarnation
does that goes with ur religous belief
i love the book and find so many people around me who are gift
but belief in reincarnation is that we will only be reincarnated on the day of jugdement
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T.K. Reply:
July 21st, 2009 at 8:02 am
The movie “What Dreams May Come” has a subtle theme of reincarnation as well as the concept of soul mates.
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Maria Reply:
August 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Agreed. One of my favourite movies of all time. Also shows energy fields and highlights the fact that people ‘left behind’ here on earth when a loved one has passed on, cannot truly find peace until the soul that has flown has also found their peace.
Maria
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i really liked it,for the first time i had read something unique
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The best description and the part which truly made the book most interesting was about SOULMATES and the “power of transformation” which woman posesses and the “POWER” men look for on earth made it even clear. The book was a perfect blend of reality and questions we often ask ourself but dont have the answer for it..you had he answer,it was in BRIDA !! through your book one can retreat back to his own self and get answers to all questions.
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I liked the transitions between ‘present day’ and her previous ‘incarnations’…..it helped to add ‘layers’ to the story and give it therefore more depth.
Keeping chapters short also made it more accessible, I think.
Not everyone can read a book in one sitting or has the time to do so!
Short chapters give comfortable stopping points at which to plug in and out of the book, as life requires.
:o)
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Savita Vega Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Fi, I agree totally about the transitions between present life and past life. I was looking at this from a writer’s perspective, and I was extremely impressed with how smooth these transitions were. It is an amazing feat for a writer to be able to transport the reader through time like this, without it seeming awkward or just plain silly. But Paulo did it perfectly.
When I read the book, I was noticing how he achieved this. First, there is this sort of trance or dream-state, which begins when Wicca says to Brida, “From now on, do exactly as I tell you, and don’t worry about anything else.” In a way, this is what the reader has to do to at this point - forget about “reality” and just follow the text. Then there is the “dream” of the cathedral, the trance experience. Then, Brida simply “wakes up” from this dream-state in another life, inside a different body, with a completely different identity. The way it is written, it just seems like the most natural thing in the world.
From a reader’s perspective, there was no point at which one is compelled to say, “Oh, this is just getting too weird! Too strange!” The occurrence of slipping into another lifetime was written in such a way that it seemed the most ordinary thing in the world, and perfectly believable.
I think Paulo does just an amazing job with this, as he always does in dealing with occult subjects, which can be very difficult to write about.
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My dear Paulo,
What can I said? If this section of the workshop is for us to let you know how I felt the book… I took Brida on a Saturday after work, and it only took me 3 hours and half to read it…
Yes you did it again, you have the magic that involve me into a world from where I do not want to get out.. the details, the way it is written… the sequence of events… everything is perfect…
There is a pretty old book called Twin Flames and Soul Mates and you in Brida explain a lot better the concept of Soul Mate through Brida and Magus…
Once again, you became part of my life through this book!!!
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Savita Vega Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Wish I could read that fast!!!
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I was just talking to a friend of mine the other day (another writer) about the narrative structure of “Brida.” This book deals with an occult subject and events occur in the book which are outside the scope of what is generally accepted as “reality.” And yet the book is believable. It does not strike the reader as “strange” or “bizarre” - when these events occur in the book, they seem like the most normal thing in the world, perfectly natural. And this has nothing to do with what the reader believes or does not believe before they begin to read the book. What makes the book perfectly believable - what renders the reader capable of accepting this as reality - is the structure of the book.
In college I took a course on Magical Realism, in which we read the works of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marques. The question arose as to how we, as readers, can just accept this stuff without thinking “this is just too strange.” The wildest, most impossible things happen in Marquez’s books, and yet we are able to read and simply “accept” these events, without questioning their probability, at least for the length of time that it takes us to finish the book. We are there in that strange world and somehow our rational mind is able to let go (all rational thought is temporarily suspended) allowing us to just go with the flow.
The same thing happens when we read science fiction - we a drawn into an “improbable” if not wholly “impossible” world where the most surreal events occur, and yet we, as readers, are able to go along on this journey, without questioning it. Of course we may know that it is not reality, but while we are reading the book, we are able to “buy into” and accept that reality.
This interests me greatly, as I too would like to write about “occult” subjects, but the question is, how to lead the reader into such realms (especially the reader who does not believe in these things) without them saying “this book is just too strange - these things are impossible!” I don’t want to try to convince anyone to believe in anything, but at the same time, I would like to be able to write about these subjects in a way that is “believable” - that is readable and enjoyable, even for the non-believer.
In the class I took on Magical Realism (and I’m not saying “Brida” is Magical realism - I’m just making a comparison), the professor pointed out that the key to writing “believable” Magical Realism is in disarming the reader’s rational mind right from the start. The way to lead them into a world where literally anything can happen, is by introducing them to these strange and impossible events from the very first page. You don’t write a perfectly “normal” world, and then later introduce some strange happening. If you do, it will shock the reader and they will be unable to accept.
“Brida” is a perfect example of this sort of structure - a structure that is capable of leading us into the realm of the occult, disarming our resistance to these ideas, and making it all seem perfectly believable and even natural. The way the book does this is, at once, so simple and yet so brilliant. It starts out with the very first paragraph:
“‘I want to learn about magic,’ said the girl. The Magus looked at her…. ‘I must be twice her age,’ he thought. And despite this, he knew that he had met his Soul Mate.”
In this first paragraph, we, as readers, are introduced to the subject of magic; we learn that one of the characters is a Magus, so, he is definitely NOT an “ordinary” person; and we are introduced, as well, to the topic of Soul Mates. Everything is there! Right in the first few lines we are lead directly into this “impossible” world and at that point, as my professor would have said, the reader’s mind has no choice but to drop every thing that is “rational” and “real” and simply accept that we are now in a different kind of world. In a sense, this technique in writing is a little like teaching someone to swim by throwing them into the water. You throw the reader in way over their head right from the first line. They have no choice but to swim! They instantly forget everything they have learned about what is “real” and “possible” (the so-called rules of reality) and from that point on they just follow along with whatever strange events or bizarre topics the writer chooses to introduce. It’s like breaking through the barrier of rational thought in that first line. After that, the reader is with you, no matter how unusual the subject might otherwise seem to them. At this point, they are ready to believe in magic, at least for the time that they are reading the book.
Thank you, Paulo, for this wonderful book. I thoroughly enjoyed it not only as a reader, but also from a writer’s perspective. I consider it to be highly exemplary of successful writing in occult topics. It is seamless - brilliant!
Sincerely,
Savita
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Carolena Sabah Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Savita,
Thank you so much for writing all that!! Seriously. Since I love to write, I Loved reading your post!
Thank you!
C.
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Savita Vega Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Thank you, Carolena!
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Marta Adriana Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Wonderful!
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