By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: Review

-For years, I had fought against my heart, because I was afraid of sadness, suffering, and abandonment. But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.- Pilar, Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei


Paulo Coelho’s By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (originally, Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei: 1994) risens up spirits. He was able to elaborate love in such a unique fashion, capitalizing on its dichotomy; a dog versus cat duel of divine and mundane passion for love. Pilar, in her relative innocence conquered the truest essence of the feeling by portraying an array of emotions. Indeed, this humanistic view towards love, which attempted to cross over the spiritual dimension, allows us to put our own encounters, and justify if not fit the brunt we bear in our hearts. The concept of love here transcends the dragging move of love’s well and end’s well genre, as it culminated in a do or die set up, where the subject must seek one, if not himself.

*all time best.