Paulo Coelho, Genius or Hoax

However, I was walking, I surf the internet when I saw a blog with a huge thread, talking about what? Now are not you guess it! Well, come on, just to say, talking about our biggest seller of books: the magical Paulo Coelho.

And explain this title that I'm giving him the feat it has accomplished in his literary walk, which is not small, worthy of the same wizard, how does this information that I got there in this blog: In 2003, Paulo Coelho entered the Guinness Book of Record as the author that signed more books in different editions. Five years later, appeared for the second time in the Guinness on behalf of "The Alchemist" as the most translated book in the world - 67 languages! He has published 19 books and has sold over 100 million copies.

Talk to Paulo Coelho takes a cheap literature, unattached, loose, with no commitment to reality, where the characters do not stand by its special characters in a plot subject to all kinds of abstractions, in addition to the neglect of Portuguese grammar is such that one of the two, or he does it intentionally mocked for the vernacular, induced in bad faith to his readers to do the same, or their reviewers actually live to catch flies. All this talk about the author, I think rain is wet.

If, before a critical so fierce that much, he slows down and continues to sell more and more books, then where is your strength? Why the success?
I'll risk two assumptions here and not say they are original without trying to go down the paths of literary critic, and author, so do not tell me that this function is typical of a writer who did not work.

The first is the detachment that makes the work to make it an easy read and thereby gain readers who had never before taken up a book. And then this requirement could be a defect, I I see a quality: to teach this people of Brazil to read, even in Portuguese wrong.

Second and last, all his narrative is always someone who suffers and goes out to fulfill a mission, or a ritual, and walk in the middle of the story takes another different road, a bifurcation to a moral sense, where the reader can enjoy taking life lessons, that is, he buys a book of fiction and won another giveaway of self-help built in the middle. At this point there is nothing wrong as well. And I say again, if the Magician premeditated this type of arrangement for their works, was a remarkable insight. Same thing of witchcraft.

Open Sesame! ... And the way to fortune and fame was wide open for our Wizard, which has tempered his work extremely palatable with condiments such as sex, religion, magic, spirituality, God and the devil mixed in a salad of indigestible cheap philosophy, such as frequently encountered in old Almanacs Capivarol the drug, made with the oil of capybara and then considered miraculous! There is syncretism.

The prodigy is so great that even those who do not like his work reads: my case, for example, I read everything, or rather, almost all, because no small sacrifice! Since the result of the effort summarized in this mention now write.
Conclusion: Paulo Coelho is a genius and deserves the Nobel Prize? Or is it a scam, and as such should be denigrated by their readers and critics?

With the word the millions of fans he has around the world!

For my part, before I met him he was totally indifferent, now that I read until I envy you! If I could imitate him, so brazenly, touch fire in all the books I wrote talking about life as it is showing a real world of shadows, where there are no prospects whatsoever for anyone to be happy!

Paulo Coelho in his book preaches the exact opposite, and there is where his genius business, points to the fact the difficulties, but leaves the door open for an illusory world where all will overcome their fears and find the longed for happiness.

Voila ... That is the path to success! Everyone loves it.

"There could be literary prizes awarded to writers not to write." (Afonso Lopes Vieira, New Quest of the Grail, pp. 319)
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