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发表于2024-12-23
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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
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.
when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
评分Life is generous to those who persue their destiny.
评分是不是有点存在主义的味道呢?每个人都有其独特的personal legend,生命的意义在于找到这条路径并勇往直前地走下去
评分很唯心,但是我喜欢。最喜欢camel driver说的话,“Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. ”
评分You can learn so much from this small book.
如果不是早年读过博尔赫斯的《双梦记》,翻到本书的213页,看到“他已经找到了财宝了”这句话,还真会被震到。幸好,这种震惊已经获得过,所以,本书给我的全部感觉,就只剩下纯真、简单和平静。很好。就像小时候,穿着新的衬衫和长裤,独自一人,走过初夏傍晚的街道回家。 从...
评分读完这本书,觉得自己真是一个毫无功利心的人。在工作压力、考试压力、对未来也比较无知的情况下,还可以喝着茶,静静地一页一页看完这本书。 我并不相信什么炼金术士,也不相信少年真的可以呼唤太阳、与世界之魂交流并把自己变成风…… 化学老师的教诲仍犹在耳,铅这种金属变...
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...
评分这是一本神奇的书 这是有史以来被翻译成最多语言的书, 总共用68种语言出版发行,甚至超过了《圣经》;这本书的全球销量超过3500万册, 作者保罗柯艾略所有作品累计销量超过1亿册,被誉为“唯一能够与马尔克斯比肩,拥有最多读者的拉美作家”。 很多人看到书名或许会联想起李...
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。 ...
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