I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next. Her thought is triggered by one of her interviewees’ response, “I haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. It is a story of existential crisis, which even a person, like Linda, within her cocoon of the comfort zone can feel. A little? I think I’m dying more quickly than I thought.” Adultery by Paulo Coelho is not a story regarding adultery though the writer has named it after that. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.” “And each time I fake an orgasm, I die a little inside. Introduction: “Some people say that as summer approaches we start to have weird ideas we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. Some of his masterpieces are The Pilgrimage, The Alchemist, Brida, The Witch of Portobello, The Spy, Adultery etc. Adultery perfectly illustrates the faint line between madness and insanity, happiness and unhappiness and the eternal search for our own “personal legend”.Īdultery by Paulo Coelho is available to buy for £14.99 from Review Adultery, Paulo Coelho, Book Reviewīook: Adultery Author: Paulo Coelho Publication: Vintage Pages: 300 Price: Click the link Author: The Brazilian author and lyricist Paulo Coelho was born in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro. Nothing has changed with this latest offering.

But sales figures for The Alchemist have stood the test of time, proving Coelho is unmatched in his talent for producing populist philosophical fodder. What is reality? Is all reality subjective and is everything we know to be real actually just a fabrication that we’ve created? “I’m afraid of deluding myself,” says Linda’s perfect husband, “of looking at reality the way I would like it to be and not how it really is.”Įach chapter swings from rational to irrational and back again and at times the to-ing and fro-ing can be monotonous.

What is love? What is happiness? Perhaps nothing more than transient states that don’t exist outside the present? Adultery only raises even more questions.

Those looking for answers won’t find any here. All this is set against the backdrop of beautiful Geneva – the clean mountain air, the wealth and politeness that feel at the same time calculated, repressed and contrived - the crystal waters of Lake Leman reflecting Linda’s personal struggle between good and evil.

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