![]() ![]() ![]() To put it bluntly, in the words of one of the characters, ‘And all of us, in one way or another, are mad.’ ![]() That, of course, puts Einstein, Columbus, even Edmund Hillary and the Beetles on the list of madmen. Madness is living in a separate world that you create yourself, a world others consider ‘different’. We all seem to have perverted ideas on what madness is, but Coelho’s book provides the simple answer: Madness is creating our own world and choosing to live in it, without concern about other things that do not matter. The fundamental question that Coelho puts forth is on what madness actually is. In Veronika decides to Die, the extremely masterful Paulo Coelho does what he is best at: forcing us to ponder upon things we all know, and making us see them in a whole new light. ![]()
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