The 3 best books by Paulo Coelho

If there is an author as widely recognized as in parallel repudiated, that is Paulo Coelho. Bestseller of a kind of spiritual narrative, Self Help more chimerical. Its parabolic plots, naive in some cases, thrill for their simplicity and transcendence at the same time that they are fiercely branded as insubstantial by half of the specialized critics.

Avoiding the radicality in the labels that are hung on this Brazilian author, and that do a disservice towards the valuation of a work of fiction in its ultimate intention to entertain and awaken an empathy so necessary today, I am going to launch to recommend his three best books.

It may be that I have found them interesting in what they transmit, or in the way in which they transmit. Do not forget that behind the writer there is a person whose life experience turns out to be more than intense enough to consider that he has something interesting to tell ...

Recommended books by Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

The second time came the charm. This second book by the author has gone on to become one of the most widely read books of the XNUMXth century. Perhaps that overwhelming success has been the cause of criticism from other authors and "influencers", annoyed by its easy rise through a proposal as light as it is full of meaning.

Summary: The Alchemist is one of the most important and well-known spiritual narratives of its author, and it was his first international success. When a person really wants something, the entire Universe conspires so that he can realize his dream. It is enough to learn to listen to the dictates of the heart and to decipher a language that is beyond words, the one that shows what the eyes cannot see. The Alchemist recounts the adventures of Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd who one day abandoned his flock to go after a chimera.

The winner is alone

Igor has everything but it is empty. Surrounded by a world as bright as it is strident in its contradictions, Igor knows that he is alone. And the material, the artificial, can never fill its void. A story about the old dilemma of filling your life from the inside out instead of the outside in.

Summary: Set in the attractive environment of the Cannes festival, The winner is alone it goes far beyond luxury and glamor, and leads us to a deep reflection about the power of our own dreams and what is the scale of values ​​with which we measure ourselves. For 24 hours we will follow in the footsteps of Igor, a Russian businessman communications magnate, destroyed by a painful emotional breakup, and we will learn about his delusional plan to attract the attention of his ex-wife.

On their way they will meet Gabriela, a young and ambitious actress; Jasmine, model from Rwanda in exile in Europe; Javits, an influential and corrupt producer; and Hamid, a stylist who started from scratch and is today at the peak of his glory. Igor's appearance will forever change the lives of all of them. An intense, sincere and well-documented journey towards our constant fascination for fame, success and money, which rises to become a shocking and necessary denunciation of the most superficial, inconsequential and predatory side of the world in which we live.

The Valkyries

An allegory of the search for being. A physical and spiritual adventure towards the transcendent, a representation of the material that takes us away from what individual happiness can be.

Summary: This book is about a man who goes in search of his angel to see him directly and talk to him. In order to achieve this he travels to the Mojave desert, accompanied by his wife, and on their way they must meet the Valkyries (divinities of Scandinavian mythology, daughters of the god Odin, who in the fighting designated the heroes who should die, to those who later served in Valhalla, the abode of heroes who died in combat, a kind of paradise for them, whose god of the place is Wotan), who will tell him what he has to do to achieve his mission. he realizes what things he must change in his life, so as not to destroy everything he has achieved, while his wife discovers the world in which her partner lives.

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