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A estrutura dos textos de nosso autor é de magnífico acabamento, onde são anexados valores filosóficos às palavras, passando sempre uma mensagem.
Acredito que o sucesso de Paulo Coelho se dá por ele sempre tentar expressar o que realmente sente, sem deixar levar por críticas.
E uma coisa é certa, essa maneira de se expressar vai sempre ser o sucesso de quem lê e pensa, pois não adianta ser um ótimo escritor, se não tiver um público que lhe corresponda.
Um abraço.
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Hello Mr. coelho!
I have read, not even one book of yours, but i have read your, “Like the flowing river”.
Frankly speaking, i simply hated your writings the first time i read a few stories, but then, when i read the story, “The moment of Dawn”, i was greatly impressed, and in just a few days, i read almost all your the stories, and those, which i liked the most are:
ghenis khan and his felcon,
the music coming from the chapel,
the solitary piece of coal,
the pianist in the shopping mall,
these are my friends,
the importance of cat in meditation,
the second chance,
the tears of the deseart,
the cloud and the sand dunes,
norma and the good things,
the funny things about human biengs,
who would like this twenty dollar bill?,
the two jewls,
the catholic and the muslim,.
and after reading all these, i just want to read your rest of the books. i’m actually, right now, in std.12, the final year of my schooling, and it is after this year , that i will go to a college, and therefore i need to prepare for my entrance tests also. So, as soon as i get free from all this, i will buy all your books, especially, The Pilgrimage, and read them all.
thanks for having made this site, where we can share our views about your books.
Hope you keep writing excellent books,
Regards
Harmeet
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esse livro é muito bom principalmente porque fala da sua peregrinaçao a santiago e porque tem aqueles exercicios.
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Dear Paulo. With much admiration it was something of a shared journey to read this very personal adventure with you. As a story of a journey it is fascinating to see the inner and the outer journeys in constant symbiosis. Sometimes it is very hard to tell what on the road was physical or metaphysical.
It is to my interpretation more allegorical than literal. I find the narrative voice is very much the teacher in the third person although there are times when you seem to slip in first person narrative effortlessly. i guess your perspective on yourself is retrospective, and therefore with the superimposed voice of experience in the third person?
I felt the ‘exercises’ were treated superficially, in the sense that they no doubt take considerable time and perseverance to achieve; notwithstanding your long background prior, which may make these exercises much easier for you to actualise. I wonder then whether the were literary devices, props, to illustrate significant points, not necessarily about the journey to Compostela per se, but life itself?
Otherwise their significance can be taken too literally. One could easily obsess about performing exercises to become something, and ironically on the spiritual path fall into a more subtler kind of materialism. In the end i feel the real exercises are in life itself.
I admire your honesty with yourself. As in the Valkyries you do not disguise your ego, nor the problems it causes. I think this honesty is one of the unspoken, yet crucial parts of your story/ies, that ego must be acknowledged and dealt with in order to make meaningful progress on a spiritual path.
The further one proceeds, the greater the dangers of the ego in undermining ones efforts. This is a vital message at the beginning of the story about a fall from grace.
What is so important to realise behind the man with so much insight and humanity , that nonetheless there is also another side, less attractive in the light which is vain, gets angry is egotistical.
Yet the journey which is after all an allegory for life itself, is designed to expose all of these faults and correct them with lessons harsh or gentle on that road.
That to me is your strength that you do not claim to be superhuman, but very human in a very nice sense ultimately.
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gracias
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The structure of this book is very linear (no flashbacks or frames), it progresses temporally in a straight line, from one moment to the next. This, I think, is very appropriate, as the structure of the book mirrors the journey of which it tells.
There is another thing, though, that I think is even more interesting about the structure of this story. It reminds me of the structure of the tales of the quest for the Holy Grail. In the tales of the Holy Grail, it almost always happens the same: the seeker, like Paulo with his sword, is given a glimpse of the Grail at the onset, and this glimpse fires the inspiration for a long and adventurous quest to regain what was lost in that moment, usually as a result of some flaw on the part of the seeker. The Pilgrimage is set up in precisely the same way. It starts with a “glimpse of the sword” - Paulo almost attains the sword, it is right in front of his face, but the very moment that he reaches out for it, it is taken away. Then he must set out on this long quest, full of all sorts of trials and challenges, in order to regain what was lost in that moment. He has to prove himself worthy of the attainment of his Grail.
This similarity is astounding. The structure of The Pilgrimage perfectly mirrors the basic archetypal structure of all Grail quests: the glimpse > the loss, due to some fault > the setting out on the quest, inspired by that glimpse > the trials (failures and victories) > the proof of worthiness > and finally the attainment of the Grail (in Paulo’s case, the Sword).
I am just wondering, Paulo, if you were consciously aware of this structure when you were writing the book? Was it your conscious intent to mirror the Grail legends? Or is it that this archetypal structure is so much a part of the quest that your quest took the same form?
Much Love,
Savita
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Carolena Sabah Reply:
August 5th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Nice Savita!
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BUENAS TARDES, NECESITO LE HAGAN LLEGAR ESTA INVITACION AL ESCRITOR PAULO COHELO, LE ESCRIBO DESDE BARQUISIMETO UNA CIUDAD DE VENEZUELA, EN OTRAS OPROTUNIDADES LE HE QUERIDO HABLAR REFERENTE A UN PERIGRINAJE QUE SE HACE EN MI CIUDAD A LA SANTA PATRONA LA DIVINA PASTORA, POR FAVOR PARA EL PROXIMO AÑO EL 14 DE ENERO DE 2010, SE HACE COMO YA SE HA HECHO DURANTE 150 O MAS, AHORA NO RECUERDO, PERO LE HAGO EXTENSIVA MI INVITACION, PARA QUE PRESENCIE TAN EXCELENTE DEMOSTRACION DE FE YA QUE DE TODOS LAS CIUDADES Y PAISES CERCANOS VIENEN A TAL PERIGRINAJE, DONDE POR LO MINIMO ASISTENten MAS DE 2000 PERSONAS,,a pagar promesas donde ella ha consebidos milagros! por favor,,,,respondame a mi email ya que es una promesa que le hize a la virgen donde le prometi por la salud de un hermano que se la iba a presentar a mi escritor favorito, ya uqe he leido la mayoria de sus obras, y por las señales es que le estoy escribiendo…saludos fraternales y espirituales para con usted!Yamileth
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For me this book has everything…It is a masterpiece on living ones life. The way it was written made me feel I was on the journey and I shared in the happenings. The exercises were brilliant and I continue to do some of them…I could feel the strong presence of Petrus and also the sometimes tension between the two of you….I was part of the anticipation as to whether you would get to the top of the waterfall and part of the terror of the black dog…I cried when you looked into the eyes of the lamb and felt it a particularly special spiritual moment. I have never made this pilgrimage but know after being on the road with you in the book I have no choice. I feel compelled to make my own pilgrimage. Thank you a thousand times for this wonderful book. It may sound funny but if I have to go away and am feeling a bit unsure about what I have to do I bring the book with me….It reassures me…I can do what I set out to…
always with love….Angela
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I fell in love with this book. Is rare i get hook deeply into the story and having a buddhist background gave me another prospective on being human. During the read too many moments I felt I grasped something deep. I felt the rhythm how it was narrated was perfect. Quick description of the place, of the mood of the “time” never boring. People with no much connection with their own spirituality may find it heavy to understand only with the thought. The reader need to rise to the challenge.
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A tough book to get the hang of… because of the issues that were being presented: eg: R.A.M.
which of course made me feel as if I could also be on that journey and facing the challenges of RAM…
It was a good book for slowing down my usual reading habits - to browse or race through a story… I really had to grasp the concepts if I were to complete the book…
I should like to read it again - now that I know I reached the end and understood the concepts.
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iamana Reply:
August 20th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Hi Catherine,
I understand and share a similar experience with you. I started to read this book 4 times, but just could not focus enough to get past the first RAM exercise. I was clearly not ready to read it, even though I “wanted” to. Interesting.
Much turmoil in life at that time- could’ve used the exercises in retrospect, but I wasn’t ready for them, I guess and I had too much internal “static” to be able to hear the lessons Paulo wanted to convey through describing his own journey.
If you have trouble “slowing down” like I did, constantly preoccupied with busy-ness of daily life (who isn’t?) you might enjoy “The Witch of Portobello”. I read that many people didn’t like it and consider it one of his weaker books. I can’t understand that! It is my favorite- spoke many messages to me.
there are some wonderful insights-AHA moments about how difficult it is to learn to just be still in one’s mind. How to learn to be comfortable and accept “blank spaces” between thoughts and activity to just be still in heart mind and be aware. Hard for me anyway. I wonder what you think of it?
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