Serge's review
The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author!)
Serge's review
The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author!)
Serge's review
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A simple and complex tale about temptation and human greed. It depicts how humans struggle with life, fear and evil. A small "dying" community was offered a new lease in life by a strange man who was searching for answers to his life questions. He offered them a possibility and a challenge to realize individual dreams on the condition that they kill one among themselves as sacrifice. It was unthinkable to anyone of them, yet the offer gripped them slowly. They acted as one, with different intentions, justifying the sacrifice for the good of the many.
Only Miss Prym, the protagonist, managed to wake up from the stupor, but only after battling with her own inner demons. She had to use her intelligence to pull back her community to reality by presenting the absurdity of the act they have set out to accomplish and the impossibility of gaining from it.
Here, Paulo Coelho certainly displayed his uncanny skill to engage the reader in the story by drawing attention to th...more
Only Miss Prym, the protagonist, managed to wake up from the stupor, but only after battling with her own inner demons. She had to use her intelligence to pull back her community to reality by presenting the absurdity of the act they have set out to accomplish and the impossibility of gaining from it.
Here, Paulo Coelho certainly displayed his uncanny skill to engage the reader in the story by drawing attention to th...more
