LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:4 April 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Intermingling of Fantasy and Reality in the Novels of Paulo Coelho

Dr. C. Jothi

Paul Coelho
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho

Abstract

Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. Magical realists Lois Parkinson, Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide ranging history and a significant influence among the literatures of the world. In Essays On Texts by writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Gunter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Derek Welcott, Abe Kobo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many others, magical realism is examined as a worldwide phenomenon (Magical Realism - Theory, History, Community http://www.uta.edu/English/wbfaris/MagicalRealism. html). Magical realism takes the supernatural for granted and spends more of its space exploring the gamut of human reactions. Its most basic concern is the nature and limits of the knowable. The special feature of Paulo Coelho is his ornamented usage of magical realism which has only the slightest variation from mysticism. This paper aims at distinguishing magical realism which is interwoven with mysticism. Among the novels of Paulo Coelho, magical realism features predominantly in three of his novels The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries and Brida.

Keywords: Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, Brida, magical realism features, magical realism as international movement.

Writers like Gabriel Garcia, Gunter Grass and John Fowles interweave, in an ever-shifting pattern, a sharply etched realism in representing ordinary events and descriptive details together with fantastic and dreamlike elements as well as with materials derived from myth and fairy tales.

In Paulo Coelho’s The Pilgrimage, it is not the external or internal factors that chase the character. Instead the protagonist gets obsessed with certain thoughts or incidents on his own self in course of his spiritual quest. While in the road to Santiago, the protagonist is being taught about many things by his guide Petrus who is highly responsible for shaping the soul of the author – the protagonist to get his magical sword. Tolerance is one of the things that is being taught to him. When they enter the Roncesvalles village, Petrus walks in an exasperated slowness which is unbearable to the author. Losing patience, the author takes out his watch often. This sort of walking is to find pleasure in a speed that one is not used to. This enables the growth of a new person within him. So the author decides to take advantage of the situation.

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Dr. C. Jothi
Assistant Professor of English
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education
Krishnankoil, Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu 626128
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