![]() ![]() Upon his return to Brazil, Coelho worked as a songwriter for some singers, and was arrested in 1974 on charges of "subversive acts" during the prevailing military rule at the time, which considered Coelho's lyric compositions a dangerous "leftist"! Coelho also worked as an actor, journalist and theater director before turning entirely to writing. I recommend The Alchemist to anyone who is passionately committed to claiming the life of their dreamstoday. To find the meaning of life, you need to take the journey, learn, and grow to see and appreciate the treasures that you already have. Der Spiegel (Germany) A remarkable tale about the most magical of all journeys: the quest to fulfill one’s destiny. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, is about finding your purpose and fulfilling your dreams. ![]() ![]() and one year later Coelho left school and lived a bohemian life, traveling to many places South America, North Africa, Mexico, Europe, and began taking drugs in the 1960s. Alchemy - The medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. They didn't do it to destroy me, but to keep me." and in accordance with the wishes of his parents Coelho goes to law school and abandons his old dream of becoming a writer. As a teenager, Coelho wished to become a writer, but his mother had a different opinion when he told her, “Dear your father is an engineer, a logical, practical man, with a very clear vision of the world.” Do you really know what it means to be a writer?”Īt the age of sixteen, Coelho's introversion and resistance to the traditional ways of life led his parents to send him to a mental institution, which led him to flee from it three times before he was finally released from it at the age of twenty! Coelho later commented, "It wasn't that they (his parents) wanted to hurt me, they just didn't know what to do with me. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 24, 1947. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. ![]()
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