“The Life and Creative Works of Paulo Coelho” by Claude-Hélène Mayer: Is Paulo Coelho a Great, But Typical Novelist?

This scholarly book pays passing attention to Coelho’s Adultery (1, pp. 86-87), the focus of my recent post. That novel suggests that Coelho thinks like a typical novelist, with a creative version of multiple personality, the subject of my blog (2). The novel’s protagonist speaks of hearing an endless dialogue of voices in her head, and compares herself to “Jekyll and Hyde” (a person with multiple personality). Does Paulo Coelho hear conversations of creative alternate personalities?

1. Claude-Hélène Mayer. The Life and Creative Works of Paulo Coelho: A Psychobiography from a Positive Psychology Perspective. Springer International Publishing, 2017.

2. Kenneth A. Nakdimen, MD. https://multiplewriters.blogspot.com/