![]() ![]() ![]() Even apart from the achievements in the medium in which he became famous - his founding work on Heavy Metal, his creation of nontraditional western outlaw Blueberry - he did a good deal of work that brought his singularly imaginative aesthetic into other creative realms, such as concept art from Alejandro Jodorowky’s Dune and illustrations for Dante’s Paradiso. Perhaps they’d prefer an edition illustrated by Mœbius?īorn Jean Giraud, Mœbius’ career guarantees him a permanent place as one of the most influential comic artists ever to live. As many fans as The Alchemist has, though, the inspiration-and-destiny-inflected appeal of the text entirely escapes some readers, in whichever language they read it. I haven’t yet gone to Brazil to gauge the book’s popularity on the streets of Coelho’s homeland since its first publication to relatively little interest, but it surely hasn’t gone unknown there. Then I went to Latin America, where the Spanish version seemed to have won a vaster readership still. When Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemistcame out in English, the level of popularity it eventually attained seriously impressed me. ![]()
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