Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the city where he now lives. His own life has in many ways been as varied and unusual as the protagonists of his internationally acclaimed novels. Like them, Paulo Coelho has followed a dream in a quest for fulfillment. His own dream, to be a writer, met with frustration throughout much of his early adult life, a time in which he worked at various professions, some of them materially rewarding but spiritually unfulfilling. "I always knew," he says, "that my Personal Legend, to use a term from alchemy, was to write." He was 38 when he published his first book.
In 1970, after deciding that law school was not for him, he traveled through much of South America, North Africa, Mexico, and Europe. Returning to Brazil after two years, he began a successful career as popular songwriter. In 1974, he was imprisoned for a short time by the military dictatorship then ruling in Brazil. In 1980, he experienced one of the defining moments of his life: he walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. On this ancient highway, used for centuries by pilgrims from France to get to the cathedral said to house the remains of St. James, he achieved a self-awareness and a spiritual awakening that he later described in The Pilgrimage.
Paulo Coelho once said that following your dream is like learning a foreign language; you will make mistakes but you will get there in the end. In 1988, he published The Alchemist, a novel that explores this theme, and it launched him as an international bestselling author. Specifically, Paulo Coelho is recognized for his powerful storytelling technique and the profound spiritual insights he blends seamlessly into his parables. Since then, The Alchemist has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been translated into some 41 languages. In addition to The Pilgrimage and The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho has written luminous novels about the different streams of our lives, including By The River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept, The Valkyries, The Fifth Mountain, and Veronika Decides to Die. A winner of numerous literary prizes, Paulo Coelho is also a prominent speaker for humanitarian causes. In 1999, he received a Crystal Award for Artistic Achievement at the Davos Economic Forum Conference.
发表于2025-04-21
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想读这本书总是在一两年前吧。当时偶然看到苏学长的荐书,最后列的就是这本《牧羊少年的奇幻之旅》。在校内上跟他提起读他硕士论文后记时的感动,他说:巧了,当时正好在看这本书。那时候就把这本书记在心间了。 不大么见学长写随感,不过那篇后记却是我迄今为止读过...
评分~~~纯手打~~~ 人一旦步入青年时期,就知道什么是自己的天命了。在人生的这个阶段,一切都那么明朗,没有做不到的事情。人们敢于梦想,期待完成他们一生中喜欢做的一切事情。但是,随着时光的流逝,一股神秘的力量开始企图证明,根本不可能完成天命。 那是表面看来有害无益的力...
评分是的,说得就是我。 很早很早以前,十多年前,在我还是个青春期的少女,漫友还是本严肃地介绍日本动漫的杂志时,有一位作者,我记不得是落落还是伊谢尔伦,写了篇有关剑风传奇的评论,评价格里菲斯时说:追求梦想的每一个时刻,都和神与永恒同在。梦中的白色高塔必须要牺牲很...
评分或許是我太不習慣這書的表達,或是我實在有點小愚昧,我很難理解這書獲得好評的理由。 莫非僅僅是寓言式的表達就可以說動大家對他寬容嗎? 故事結構簡單得無以復加,用一些宗教的思想來掩飾其后的單薄,任由作者的想象力來推動故事的前進,像是一些劣質的連續劇。 ...
评分转载-牧羊少年奇幻之旅/Gina 这位前辈是台湾的资深芳疗师Gina,她同时有深厚的基督教知识背景。我正是看过她的这篇,才知道了这本书。把它转载在这里,只是希望,更多的人可以通过Gina前辈这些文字,更深了解那个牧羊少年的世界 There was a boy. 认识那个男孩的时候,我1...
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Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson, Amazon.com Review
The heart's journey in a metaphorical way.
评分I bought it at a book store in pokhara. that was the 37th eng version. maktub. i will always remind it to myself.
评分The heart's journey in a metaphorical way.
评分這個故事是如此簡單 它衹是告訴我們 追隨自己的心去生活。但無論如何簡單 聯結起生活 都不容易 而在長久的經歷之中 受著困境 傷害和懷疑的不斷侵蝕 依然保持對自己夢想深沉的信賴 更是不易吧。
评分世界之心呀。
The Alchemist 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书