Paulo Coelho's

Sidi Abdullah, Bushra

doi:10.24271/garmian.207118

Paulo Coelho's "The Winner Stands Alone.", A Postmodern Study

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Bushra Sidi Abdullah

University of Garmian _ College of Education English Department

https://doi.org/10.24271/garmian.207118

Abstract

Paulo Coelho (1947- ) and his writing has been under the spotlight since he first started writing in his teenage years after a revolutionary step he took against his parents. The Brazilian writer has many best-selling novels like, The Al Chemist (1988), Brida (1990), and many others. The Winner Stands Alone (2008), is another great novel by Coelho, nevertheless; it didn't take its deserved attention, which therefor will be the efforts of this research to shed light more on this amazing novel.
Through explaining and taking out the techniques of Post-Modernism from the novel, The article tries to prove that the writer utilizes postmodern techniques such as fragmentation, pastiche, Maximalism, and Technoculture in his writing, and this is shown via pointing out those four outstanding elements from the novel's text

Keywords

Post-Modernism

Coelho

Fragmentation

Pastiche

Technoculture

Maximalism

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