The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

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We may use third party cookies to track visitor behaviour and to improve the quality of Our Services. The book has sold, by Coelho's count, roughly 35 million copies, and is now the most translated book in the world by any living author.

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Todo el libro me parece malo y chantajista, pero bueno, millones de lectores opinan lo contrario que yo y les ha ayudado en su vida. Un viaje espiritual de autodescubrimiento y crecimiento personal a través del antiguo Camino de Santiago, una ruta peregrina cristiana que supo ser famosa durante toda la Edad Media, y que persiste aún al día de hoy. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. In a way you might as well read it just so you can see how feeble-minded they must be to get any kind of philosophical nourishment out of this inexhaustible stream of clichés.Fatima, Santiago’s love interest, lacks much agency in the tale and is more or less written as a prize for following his Personal Legend. But Coelho never mentions 'Personal Legend' with regard to women, other than to say that Fatima, Santiago's fiance, is 'a part of Santiago's Personal Legend.

The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

Now, it's beyond broken, beyond frustrating, and clearly beyond repair (or anyone caring to invest in it). I regularly get friend requests based solely on this review and likes and comments are added almost daily. For me, these people have a more realistic, more humble, more fair, and less cliched vision of the world than Paulo Coelho's vision in THE ALCHEMIST. They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, they generously gave of their wool, their company, and - once in a while - their meat.Unfortunately, for myself at least, it all comes across as a pristine facade without much behind it, offering something that can be quickly digested but isn’t actually filling. During the journey Petrus shows him meditation exercises and introduces him to some of the more down-to-earth elements of Western mystical thought and philosophy, and teaches him about love and its forms: agape, philia and eros.