Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist as a Postmodern Text

Literature has witnessed the appearance of many movements and approaches throughout the history. After World War II, particularly in the 1960s, postmodernism has come to surface and as an up-to-date movement, many eminent critics and cultural historians have turned their concerns and attention to it. This study examines the concept of postmodernism and it explores its main characteristics that appear in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist (1986).