The gist of the message is that "collective madness is called sanity". This book is partly based on Coelho's experience in various mental institutions (see the biography Confessions of a Pilgrim by Juan Arias), and deals with the subject of madness. It tells the story of Veronika, a 24-year-old Slovenian who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. Veronika Decides to Die ( Portuguese: Veronika Decide Morrer) is a novel by Paulo Coelho.
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Veronika Decides to Die" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Which brings me to my main point of critique, which lost this book a full star: Coelho is a talented writer, no doubt about it and he isn’t one of the bestselling writers worldwide for nothing, but Good Lord in Heaven, can male writers please take a timeout from writing female sexual experiences? For like ten years, as a penance for all the crap that has been produced so far? There’s a graphic masturbation scene in this and it’s so bad, so really really bad, dude, no, this is not what you think it is, STAHP!Īnyway, that aside, the book is good and if you fancy a quick, hopeful, life-reaffirming read about a heavy and quite honestly triggering topic, this is your book.This article needs additional citations for verification. The book is rather short though, so I feel like the solution is a bit too rushed/simplistic and while I cherish a positive ending, especially when it comes to this subject matter, I could have dealt without the love story. He also explores the main theme, what is “normal” and is there really someone who fits this, very well and as a big proponent of the destigmatisation of mental illnesses I wish theses questions were asked more often. Coelho wrote this based on his own experiences in mental wards and in those life stories you can tell that he knows what he’s talking about. It’s a slightly cliched setup, but I enjoyed the sense of humour in it, the different characters, their distinct personalities and their rather realistic backgrounds. She survives the suicide attempt and is admitted to the post-Yugoslavian state-of-the-art mental hospital Villette in Ljubljana where she meets the different inhabitants, including a psychiatrist with rather unconventional and probably (definitely) unethical methods. Veronika, a pretty 24-year-old Slovenian decides to take her life.
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