The Eleven Minutes is a story of Maria, a young Brazilian girl who was made to believe love being just a source of sadness and frustrations with her unsuccessful first love that leaves her mentally bruised and heart-broken. Let us see how Maria differs from Santiago of The Alchemist.
She meets a man from Switzerland who claims to be one of the foreign employee agents. she leaves Rio just to become a prostitute. In Geneva, a prostitute though is given 45 minutes to serve a customer; she was told that it will be just for eleven minutes she will be actually serving a customer.
She becomes one of the sought-after professional prostitutes who not only serves ordinary customers but also special customers. She makes good money.
Maria’s attitude towards love is being put to test when she meets a young painter. But she wants to return home. She faces two faces of life; one as a prostitute seeking pleasure just for its sake. And other one in finding her inner self through seeking pleasure through sacred sex.
Paulo Coelho is internationally acclaimed to be a great philosophical novelist. One can relate this with the life of Santiago – a boy in his book The Alchemist. Just like Santiago, a boy from The Alchemist who leaves his homeland in discovering treasures instead discovering treasures within him at last, does Maria from Eleven Minutes also discovers the treasures within her at last?
But on my part, I have loved Eleven Minutes as much I did The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho, in former has used pseudo-diary which helps readers to know life’s outlook from the view of Maria. But I am of the view that author has given so much emotions to Maria making us to sympathize her and psychologically forcing us to love Maria beyond she deserves.
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