A Study of Magical Realism of Intuition in Writer's Life of Paulo Coelho’s Novels

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Paulo Coelho has achieved success by writing novels with spiritual themes in the magical realist mode. Content in his novels has a thin implicit layer of philosophy, which speaks through textual recollections and inter-textual levels of meaning. Coelho has entwined the theme of his novels with magical realism which is a brilliant mirror image of gigantic literature, created inside a huge literary grid, where the worldwide literature and cultural codes coexist while being continuously invigorated. These codes have reappeared and are reconstructed with the assistance of skilful perceptions of Coelho. Paulo Coelho’s novels are characterized by the use of various literary devices that also came to be symptomatic of the magical realist technique. The intense awareness of storytelling, emphasis on imagination and fantasy, the use of extremely rich, figurative language in the form of symbols, motifs, metaphors and a new, multiple point of view of these concepts as well as a primary interest in spiritual life and philosophy of the characters represent only a limited listing of devices the author applies in his literary work. The magical realist aspect of his works seems to be vital and would be worth a more detailed analysis. Before analysing the novels of Paulo Coelho in terms of the magical realist elements, the researcher at first briefly traces in this chapter the origin, definition and clarification of the term magical realism and discusses popular magical realist writers and critics of various periods.

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