The Pilgrimage – Paulo Coehlo

Wandering castle Guillaume Ducreux
Like often with Paulo Coelho’s books, The Pilgrimage is a nice read. But unlike the others I read (the Alchemist and Aleph), there are just a few things about life in general, and so much about rituals, religions, and the pilgrimage (the main character does the road to Santiago) itself. I managed to find some good quotes, mainly about the concept of good fight, but this is my least favourite book from Paulo Coelho. Without considering that I just started a Paul Auster book, which is so much better. (I still manage to read this during a trip in Ireland, just like the last one. This was good.)

In spite of the knowledge that there were many ways in which I could fail, I had taken the first step.

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When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passer more slowly, and on most journeys you don’t even understand the langage the people speak. So you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance to the things around you because your survival depends on them. You begin to be more accessible to others because they may be able to help you in a difficult situations. And you accept any small favor from the gods with great delight, as if it were an episode you would remember for the rest of your life

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Picture by Guillaume Ducreux, from Wandering Castle, that I heard about on  Beyeah. I made an article about an exhibition of the same guy earlier in the year, here.

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