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Emergence of Spiritual Consciousness through Magic Realism in Coelho’s Trilogy

January 2009
International Journal of the Humanities 6(12):1-8

DOI:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v06i12/42571

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Kavitha Ganesan

Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)

This paper looks at the redefinition of spirituality in the works of Coelho with a special focus on female characters whom undergo a shift in their spiritual realisation from initial ignorance of its existence. The Trilogy, And on the Seventh Day, which includes three novels, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994), Veronika Decides to Die (1998), and The Devil and Miss Prym (2000) each dissects the lives, events and most importantly, psychological states of the main characters that later attain a sense of realisation from within, placing ‘love’ as the centre of all spiritual realisation. For this purpose, the researcher had used magic realism as a platform to study the emergence of spiritual elements constantly highlighted by the author

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