![]() ![]() 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. One reason that the novel, despite so many tedious predictions to the. Photograph by Sophia Wilson for The New Yorker. Nothing has changed with this latest offering. Luster is an adultery novel with tricks up its sleeve. 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? Linda knows shes lucky.Yet every morning. ![]() Adultery only raises even more questions. Author Paulo Coelho Publisher Penguin Random House India Related articles. 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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