Book Review: The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho
Last Updated on September 24, 2023 by Louisa
In a world filled with countless adventure stories and tales of heroism, romance, and adventure, Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” shines as a beacon of light, shining brightly above the rest, in this timeless adventure novel filled with profound and timeless wisdom.
The Alchemist isn’t just a novel, it’s a spiritual awakening. Paulo Coelho is well known for writing not only incredible stories but also for expressing philosophical wondering and deeply thought-provoking messages.
He is one of the most famous, and greatest, Brazilian authors, and it was The Alchemist that put earned him the acclaimed recognition he receives today.
Selling 300 million copies worldwide since its release in 1993, The Alchemist should be the first book anyone read if you’re not familiar with Paulo Coelho.
And in this honest book review of The Alchemist, you’re about to find out why…
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Book Review of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
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The Alchemist is an enchanting novel that takes you on a transformative journey that will have you questioning life, our purpose, and our place in the world. Not only that, but the philosophical messages remind us of the power of dreams, the importance of self-discovery, and the remarkable possibilities that lie beyond our comfort zones. In The Alchemist, the reader follows a young boy (who remains nameless throughout) as he chases his dream of finding the lost treasure, after being told where to look by a King he meets in the market. Along the way, the boy learns about free will, the power of Maktub, a term used to describe “what is meant to be”, as well as finds love, resilience, and passion. Accompanied by an Alchemist, the boy learns to bend the powers of the Earth to his will, enabling him to fulfill his purpose and reach his goals. The Alchemist has one important message: never give up, no matter what obstacles you face.
By Louisa Smith
A novel that has you contemplating life, the world, and our purpose within it. Deeply profound, enlightening, and poetic. Truly, The Alchemist is one of the best adventure novels of all time.
What I Liked
Of course, the best thing about The Alchemist is Coelho’s writing style, which effortlessly weaves together simplicity and elegance, creating a mesmerizing narrative that transports you to the mystical realms of your imagination.
The lyrical prose flows like a gentle breeze, enchanting us with its beauty and evoking a sense of wonder with every word.
Of course, The Alchemist is most famous for its philosophy. Despite being less than 200 pages, it’s a book you want to read slowly, taking in each profound thought and idea slowly and taking time to contemplate.
As you navigate your way through the story, you’ll be questioning the meaning of life and the transformative power of love, determination, and passion.
I loved how the boy renamed nameless throughout, allowing you to put yourself in his shoes.
Even though the story is simple, its messages and Coelho’s deep philosophical depth are what make this book a masterpiece.
Coelho skillfully explores the concepts that invite you to question your own beliefs and preconceived notions about the world.
The character development was also excellent, as you follow the young boy in first person, gaining insight from his own perspective. As each philosophical quip is dropped, the reader learns along with the boy, who is receiving a spiritual awakening.
What Could Have Been Better
The Alchemist isn’t a novel that’s enjoyed for the storyline. It delivers a powerful message, but when it comes to the plot, this is somewhat predictable.
Coelho follows a well-trodden path, utilizing common storytelling tropes and archetypes, and there’s no real element of surprise about what comes next in terms of the narrative.
While I liked the character development of the boy, the supporting characters lack depth. Perhaps this is done to keep the attention on the boy and his journey, but there could have been more development from the secondary characters.
Each person the boy meets has an impact on him in some way, but as he moves on through the narrative, they get forgotten about.
The focus of The Alchemist is on the overarching themes and symbolism, which means that the plot and individual growth of the supporting characters get put to the side.
Despite these minor shortcomings, I still feel that The Alchemist remains an extraordinary literary masterpiece and I’m not surprised it has captured the hearts and minds of millions of people around the globe.
Coelho’s ability to infuse spirituality and philosophy into a captivating story is a testament to his brilliance as a writer.
Related Reading: Quotes from The Alchemist
Similar Works
Of course, Paulo Coelho’s other works are equally as profound and enlightening, especially The Pilgrimage, which is all about his own personal pilgrimage journey.
Another profound book by Paulo Coelho that I thought was similar was Manuscript Found in Accra, which is about a preacher who shares the answers to life’s questions and the rules for sacred human values.
If you’re looking for something that leaves you contemplating life, then I highly recommend you pick up these other two novels by Paulo Coelho.
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The Alchemist Trigger Warnings
The Alchemist doesn’t really contain trigger warnings, but there are some scenes that contain the following…
- Gender Bias
- Aggression and physical assault
The Alchemist has the following themes:
- Travel and Self-Discovery
- Free Will vs Fate
- Pursuit of a dream
- Maktub (What is Meant to Be)
- Value of the small things
- Coming of age
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The Verdict: Would I Recommend The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?
The Alchemist has a permanent place on my bookshelf and is a book I will reread for years to come. While the plot isn’t anything special, it’s philosophy, symbolism, and profound messaging have changed my way of thinking about the world.
It’s a book that will enlighten you, awaken you, and maybe even light a fire in you, encouraging you to dream big and chase the stars.
I would recommend this novel to anyone looking for something insightful and thought-provoking.
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The Details
- Pub Date: April 25th, 1993
- ISBN: 978-0061122415
- Page Count: 197
- Publisher: HarperOne
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THE ALCHEMIST
by Paulo Coelho & translated by Margaret Jull Costa ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 1993
Coelho's placebo has racked up impressive sales in Brazil and Europe. Americans should flock to it like gulls.
Coelho is a Brazilian writer with four books to his credit. Following Diary of a Magus (1992—not reviewed) came this book, published in Brazil in 1988: it's an interdenominational, transcendental, inspirational fable—in other words, a bag of wind.
The story is about a youth empowered to follow his dream. Santiago is an Andalusian shepherd boy who learns through a dream of a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. An old man, the king of Salem, the first of various spiritual guides, tells the boy that he has discovered his destiny: "to realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation." So Santiago sells his sheep, sails to Tangier, is tricked out of his money, regains it through hard work, crosses the desert with a caravan, stops at an oasis long enough to fall in love, escapes from warring tribesmen by performing a miracle, reaches the pyramids, and eventually gets both the gold and the girl. Along the way he meets an Englishman who describes the Soul of the World; the desert woman Fatima, who teaches him the Language of the World; and an alchemist who says, "Listen to your heart" A message clings like ivy to every encounter; everyone, but everyone, has to put in their two cents' worth, from the crystal merchant to the camel driver ("concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man"). The absence of characterization and overall blandness suggest authorship by a committee of self-improvement pundits—a far cry from Saint- Exupery's The Little Prince : that flagship of the genre was a genuine charmer because it clearly derived from a quirky, individual sensibility.
Pub Date: July 1, 1993
ISBN: 0-06-250217-4
Page Count: 192
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1993
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by Hanya Yanagihara ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2015
The phrase “tour de force” could have been invented for this audacious novel.
Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees , 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background; in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”—deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. There isn’t a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn’t much plot. There aren’t even many markers of what’s happening in the outside world; Jude moves to a loft in SoHo as a young man, but we don’t see the neighborhood change from gritty artists’ enclave to glitzy tourist destination. What we get instead is an intensely interior look at the friends’ psyches and relationships, and it’s utterly enthralling. The four men think about work and creativity and success and failure; they cook for each other, compete with each other and jostle for each other’s affection. JB bases his entire artistic career on painting portraits of his friends, while Malcolm takes care of them by designing their apartments and houses. When Jude, as an adult, is adopted by his favorite Harvard law professor, his friends join him for Thanksgiving in Cambridge every year. And when Willem becomes a movie star, they all bask in his glow. Eventually, the tone darkens and the story narrows to focus on Jude as the pain of his past cuts deep into his carefully constructed life.
Pub Date: March 10, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-385-53925-8
Page Count: 720
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THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
by J.D. Salinger ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1951
A strict report, worthy of sympathy.
A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen ) has a compulsive impact.
"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….
Pub Date: June 15, 1951
ISBN: 0316769177
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Publisher: Little, Brown
Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1951
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By Paulo Coelho New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993 ISBN # 0-06-250218-2 (paper) 174 pages
�You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit its because it wasn�t true love .. the love that speaks the Language of the World.�
�My heart is a traitor,� the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. �It doesn�t want me to go on.� �That makes sense,� the alchemist answered. �Naturally it�s afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you�ve won.� �Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?� �Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you�re thinking about life and about the world.� �You mean I should listen, even if it�s treasonous?� �Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never he able to do that to you. Because you�ll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them.�
�My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,� the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. �Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second�s encounter with God and with eternity.� �Every second of the search is an encounter with God,� the boy told his heart. �When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because I�ve known that every bout was a part of the dream that I would find it. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, I�ve discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.�
The strange alchemy of "The Alchemist," the novel turned self-dev phenomenon
Paulo Coelho's simple and profound modern classic will stick with you for a lifetime.
Why it's essential
This classic parable about following your dreams is the perfect self-development story, rich in inspiration and encouragement.
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What is The Alchemist about?
The Alchemist is a classic tale about a young sheep herder, Santiago, who embarks on an international journey to seek out his life’s treasure. Along the way, the boy learns the importance of following his heart and trusting in the power of the universe.
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Editor Madeline loves memoir, literary fiction that tackles the existential, and all the sapphic stories she can get her hands on.
At its core, The Alchemist is a spiritual guide. Packed into the form of a short fable, it follows young Santiago, a shepherd boy who travels far and wide in hopes of finding his life’s treasures. Within the simplicity of the story, universal messages are able to unfold in profound ways, ringing true with a newfound sense of urgency—listen to your heart, follow your intuition, and have the courage to walk towards your dreams even when you are afraid of what might happen next.
Far from an expansive, ancient desert, I listened to this story for the first time on the beach. After hearing rave reviews of The Alchemist for several years from friends and acquaintances, I had decided to listen to the audiobook on a rare week off. It was Christmas, and for the first time in a long time, I was not with my family for the holidays. I was spending that lost week between Christmas and New Year's on a bed of white sand in the Hawaiian Islands, on something of an engagement-moon with my fiancé. It was all gorgeous—the sun, the purplish mountains in the distance, the giant sea turtles that gently floated in the water like kids on a perpetual vacation. Taken at face value, there should have been no worries in sight. But secretly, I was worried. In fact, I was extremely worried. I was living with a nagging feeling that I kept trying to push down, and that each time I did, would inevitably rise again. In the end, listening to a story about a young boy in Egypt helped me to tap into my own heart of hearts, inevitably realizing the truth—I did not want to marry this man, and in fact, I wouldn’t.
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Now a modern classic that spent more than 315 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, The Alchemist was first published by an obscure Brazilian publishing house and largely unread. Another publisher eventually re-published Coelho's book, but it remained obscure and barely sold. It wasn’t until an American tourist found the novel and helped Coelho to translate the book into English that it became the literary phenomenon it is today.
Of his journey to success, Coelho has said, "I was 41 and desperate. But I never lost faith in the book or ever wavered in my vision. Why? Because it was me in there, all of me, heart and soul. I was living my own metaphor."
What listeners said
"No better choice to read this magnificent book by Paul Coelho than Jeremy Irons. It is exceptionally well read, with great expression, and wonderful adaption of voice to characters ... profound yet told simply with grace and depth." –Linda, Audible listener
"This book was a life changing read for me. I was moved and spiritually uplifted by this remarkable story. I can't say enough about this book other than the fact that my children will hear it over and over again." –Daniel, Audible listener
" The Alchemist is hands down the best writing I have ever heard. In a light-hearted story, Paulo Coelho embedded the meanings of life, love, intention, and truth. Anyone with an open mind and an expansive heart will find this book profoundly life changing." –Sisi, Audible listener
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Quotes from The Alchemist
"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."
"Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him."
About the author
Paulo Coelho was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Having written more than 30 books that have sold over 320 million copies in 170 countries, he has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. Coelho has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2007 and this has allowed him to continue to promote intercultural dialogue and to focus on the needs of children. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the recipient of more than 115 awards and honors.
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Jeremy Irons is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale , Macbeth , Much Ado About Nothing , The Taming of the Shrew , and Richard II . Irons made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing , receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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The Alchemist Book Review. The Alchemist is an enchanting novel that takes you on a transformative journey that will have you questioning life, our purpose, and our place in the world. Not only that, but the philosophical messages remind us of the power of dreams, the importance of self-discovery, and the remarkable possibilities that lie ...
Coelho is a Brazilian writer with four books to his credit. Following Diary of a Magus (1992—not reviewed) came this book, published in Brazil in 1988: it's an interdenominational, transcendental, inspirational fable—in other words, a bag of wind.
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"The Alchemist" is a beautiful novel by Paulo Coelho, first published in 1988. It has since grown among the most well-known and cherished books, selling millions of copies globally and being ...
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW. Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho's international bestseller centers on an Andalusian shepherd who travels far and wide in search of elusive treasure, encountering characters who help him understand his purpose. Lovely and unadorned, The Alchemist is a concise fable born out of the author's deep-rooted belief that ...
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream. Paperback - May 10, 1995. by Paulo Coelho (Author) 4.6 150,118 ratings. Teachers' pick. See all formats and editions. Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world, and this tenth anniversary edition, with a new introduction from the author, will only ...
Themes of personal transformation also are present in Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist," the book Jones chose to review for the second installment of Reading While Incarcerated. Reading While Incarcerated is a series of book reviews by people who are incarcerated.
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Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho is the author of "The Alchemist", he was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Being the author of 30 books that have sold over 320 million copies in 170 countries, he has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today.
There are many self-help books, autobiographies, and works that tackle the paramount importance of pursuing one's dreams. The Alchemist, by international bestseller, Paulo Coelho, is treasured as ...
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The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese , it became a widely translated international bestseller.
by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian ...
Published Dec 22, 2022. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho is a beautifully written, thought-provoking novel about a young shepherd named Santiago who embarks on a journey to find his personal legend ...
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Movie/Book Review Sheet Name: Nguyen Canh Thinh Review of "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho Title: The Alchemist Genre: Novel Director/Author: Paulo Coelho Release Date: 1988 1. Plot Summary: "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho is an enthralling narrative that follows the journey of Santiago, a shepherd who embarks on a quest to discover his ...