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"On 11 November 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had--at last!--arrived": so begins Paulo Coelho's extraordinary new novel, Veronika Decides to Die. Renowned for the international success of The Alchemist, Coelho has secured his reputation as an outstanding storyteller and a key t
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"On 11 November 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had--at last!--arrived": so begins Paulo Coelho's extraordinary new novel, Veronika Decides to Die. Renowned for the international success of The Alchemist, Coelho has secured his reputation as an outstanding storyteller and a key figure in world literature (his work has been translated into over 40 languages). Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa, Veronika Decides to Die is a compelling story of a woman's struggle with and against life, told with Coelho's wit, subtlety and economy. On the track of whatever it is that makes life worth living, Coelho plots Veronika's fate with infinite care, weaving the mystery of her decision to take her own life into the themes of national identity--Veronika is a citizen of Slovenia, "that strange country that no one seemed quite able to place"--and madness.
Veronika does not die; instead, she wakes up in Villette--the "famous and much-feared lunatic asylum"--only to be told that, having damaged her heart irreparably, she has just a few days to live. What she faces now is a waiting game and the strange world of Villette: the rules and regulations which govern the lives of its inmates and the doctors who treat them. Coelho's question may be a familiar one: crudely, who, or what, is mad? But his fiction is a remarkable, sometimes chilling, response to it. "Everyone has an unusual story to tell" is the starting-point of the new treatment initiated at Villette by the enigmatic Dr Igor; it's also the insight from which this book takes off to explore the impact of a "slow, irreparable death" on a young woman and the mad men and women around her. --Vicky Lebeau
"“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.”
“An awareness of death encourages to live more intensely.”
“Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Allow the real “I” to reveal itself. It’s what you are, not what others make of you.”
“A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from t"
"Adapted to: Veronika Decides To Die (2009)
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Veronika
Personal note: Sarah Michelle Gellar has nothing in common with my Veronika, but I look foward to seeing how she will impersonate one of my favorite characters.. Too bad the film is not yet released.
Personal note part 2: Okay, so I've finally watched it. All I could think afterward was WTF?? Seriously, I think they couldn't have done a worse job on it even if they tried. "
"Original Title: Veronika Decide Morrer
Year Published: 1998
Summary: It tells the story of 24 year old Veronika, who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. This book is partly based on Coelho's experience in various mental institutions. It is based around the subject of madness. The gist of the message is that "collective madness is called sanity"."
""Louco é quem vive em seu mundo. Como os esquizofrênicos, os psicopatas, os maníacos.. Entretanto, você já deve ter ouvido falar em Einstein, dizendo que não havia tempo nem espaço, mas uma união dos dois. Ou Colombo, insistindo que do outro lado do mar não estava um abismo, e sim um continente. Ou de Edmond Hillary, garantindo que um homem podia chegar ao topo do Everest. Ou dos Beatles, que fizeram uma música diferente e se vestiram como pessoas totalmente fora de sua época. Todas e"
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