The Path To Santiago
(Paulo Coehlo)
With an eye on Castaneda and the wizard Don Juan,the story of Paulo Coehlo and of his pilgrimage that leads to Compostela, Santiago(The path to Santiago,Bompiani) unwinds efficiently and moderately adventurous, through a magic prologue and epilogue with morals managing to never touch the surface. Paulo's adventure, whilst accompanied by designer Petrus on the strange path to Santiago, is esemplary. There is an inspiring Magician whose pride prevents him from crossing the finishing line, there's a sword to find and a path of common people to follow in order to find it. With all symbols complete with everything. Every stage of the journey is a test and every test excelled gives new wisdom to the pilgrim and also to the reader who is invited to unite in the experience of the narrator against a series of exercises and rituals through magic and new age.
The first novel of Paulo Coelo, published in Brazil in 1987 without great success, The path to Santiago was immediately followed by The Alchemist, a tale of exotic banal themes, also well-organised, in a romantic theme. The path to Santiago has a simple structure of agile writing, coupled with enough reality but and the esoteric moments don't convince, meanwhile the fascinating tales linked to the path are just lighted, leaving the reader some question marks and a little disappointment along the way. Without taking away from it, it's certainly a valid experience if conducted in the first person, with many good propositions and in the attempt to create a road of spiritual growth to the tormented exsistence of the contemporary man. This is a novel that offers itself to be inserted in the revival of the Medievel genre. An age always receptacle to the most nostalgic fantasies, a search of lost certainties celebrated by hundreds of rievocations in Italy and abroad. In spite of everything, it rests superficially and perhaps a man of today can be more useful Erich Fromm of to have or to be.
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