Conquering One’s Own Kingdom: Analysing the Postmodern Spiritual Condition in Paulo Coelho’s Aleph
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Paulo Coelho is the famous bestselling novelist of New Age visionary fiction who has conquered the world with his works of spiritual quests. His novel The Alchemist, sold over 30 million copies, is a modern fable that emphasizes the spiritual journey of following a person’s dream. His other novels like The Pilgrimage, Veronica Decides to Die, Zahir, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, The Devil and Miss Prym, The Winner Stands Alone, The Witch of Portobello and Aleph are equally significant spiritual quests undertaken by people from different walks of life. The paper intends to study the postmodern climate of spirituality from the textual perspective of Coelho’s visionary novel Aleph (2011).
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