LITERARY ALCHEMY AND BLASPHEMY OF PAUL COELHO

UZ TEKSTOVE GEOGRAFIJA PJESNIKA I NEKOLIKO PRIČA DŽELALUDINA RUMIJA

Abstract

In this issue of our magazine, the readers may find the second sequel of Geography of A Poet, the extraordinary essay by Annemarie Schimmel and several marvelous stories by Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi. For these two supplements (in)directly reveal the entire literary alchemy of Paul Coelho whose novel Alchemist made him a well-known writer, despite the fact that, as demonstrated herein, he did little more than copied from the famous Rumi. His novel proves that Coehlo is, himself, a good alchemist, while displaying his own blasphemy, in the form of a story which takes place in the Islamic milieu of Sahara desert, the story jam-packed with lies about Muslims, who, ‘bang their heads against the ground’ and alike; but that is the way it should be in the world where the theft is considered ‘permissible borrowing’, and where the words are written in order to deceive and enable the writer to creep into good graces of a Western reader.