(NARRATOLOGY) The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho

THEORY

NARRATOLOGY
-It refers to both the theory and the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception.

-It looks at what narratives have in common and what makes one different from another.

-It is dedicated to the study of the logic, principles, and practices of narrative representation.

TITLE

THE WINNER STANDS ALONE BY PAULO COELHO

SYNOPSIS

Igor Malev has one thing on his mind - his ex-wife Ewa. He's handsome, rich, and effortlessly personable - but she left him for a successful fashion designer, a sting he's never recovered from. 

So he travels to the glamorous Cannes International Film Festival where they'll be appearing, intent on winning back her love. But Igor is a man of rare intensity and cold intelligence - and this is to be no ordinary reconciliation. For Igor made a promise to destroy whole worlds to get to his beloved. Now, the conflict between an individual evil force and society emerges as the novel unfolds, and as morality is derailed.

ANALYSIS

It's true that we are only living in one world and all of us are just equal. However, reality bites that we, people who are living in this world, made an invisible division between all of us.

I'd say that The Winner Stands Alone is one of my favorite novels of my favorite author, Paulo Coelho. 

I love the way he narrated and revealed the different kind of "sub worlds" we have~ from the entertainment world, world of politics and world of ordinary people who are also aspiring to go to the two worlds of fame (entertainment and politics). 

Actually entertainment and politics may both differ when it comes to how they revolve but the "advantages" and "benefits" it offer is quite the same. On the positive side, they both mean fame, money and power~ exact reason why many people are aspiring to go to these kinds of world. However, negative things were also pointed out. FAME. MONEY. POWER. Too much of it can destroy a person and can even turn him evil. Of course, it's not bad to aspire to become someone good by having these things but we should know our limits when it comes to this.  

I learned alot from this book and this also made me realized different things in different worlds.  

This book definitely deserves a PART 2!

I think the whole content of the story can justify what Narratology is all about.