His three previous admissions to psychiatric hospitals served as proof. His captors only let him go because the writer pretended to be crazy. Just two days after being released, Coelho was kidnapped in the middle of the street and taken to a military detention center. The dictatorial military regime of the time considered it a serious threat. During this period, the young Paulo was imprisoned for being the “thinking head” of the libertarian comic kring ha. These rituals would serve as the basis for the plot of The Valkyries (1992). In 1973, Coelho and Seixas joined the liberal-thinking anti-capitalist movement, Sociedad Alternativa, who were also practitioners of black magic. Until 1976, Paulo composed more than sixty songs on different albums that exceeded 600.000 copies sold in total. Those were times of experimentation with psychotropic substances and of musical creation with Raúl Seixas. Hippie movement and music in the midst of the dictatorshipĬoelho did not complete his university training, instead, he immersed himself fully in the hippie scene of the sixties. Many of the dark experiences and depressive feelings of that time were captured by the author in Veronika Decides to Die Later, the young Coelho began to associate with a theater group and carry out journalistic work.Īfter a third experience in a psychiatric hospital - and on the advice of a family doctor - Paulo decides to study law to get his life back on track. His father took this behavior as a symptom of illness and decided to admit his son (on two occasions) to a mental health center. Paulo's rebellious character was evident in his adolescence, when he opposed his parents' intention to make him an engineer. But not everything was negative, because in the corridors of that institution his literary vocation emerged.
However, the compulsory religious practice produces in the young person an effect of rejection towards the masses. From the age of seven he received Jesuit training at the Colegio San Ignacio in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Pedro, was an engineer his mother, Lygia, a housewife. The son of a wealthy middle-class family, Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil in 1947.
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