The metaphor of the journey in Paulo Coelho's the alchemist

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The present essay deals with Paul Coelho's approach to Eastern culture in general and the Islamic/Arabic frame of thought in particular, and offers a contextual approach to Coelho's self-referential novel The Alchemist, highlighting and commenting upon the writer's references to the Arabic frame of thought, religion, and philosophy.

Consistent with these such elements as the alchemist, triviality, self-help, and esotericism, the novel engages the reader in history, that is, by reinforcing the maintenance of the status quo, construction of history is directed towards the concretization of the concepts predicted by these The present essay deals with Paul Coelho's approach to Eastern culture in general and the Islamic/Arabic frame of thought in particular, and offers a contextual approach to Coelho's self-referential novel The Alchemist, highlighting and commenting upon the writer's references to the Arabic frame of thought, religion, and philosophy.

Consistent with these such elements as the alchemist, triviality, self-help, and esotericism, the novel engages the reader in history, that is, by reinforcing the maintenance of the status quo, construction of history is directed towards the concretization of the concepts predicted by these tendencies.