A Reanalysis of Marxism, Nihilism, and Satanism in Paulo Coelho's Mystical Literature

Paulo Coelho is a famous Brazilian novelist and leader of a deviant sect. During his adolescence, he became faithless and, due to his strong inclination towards Marx and Angles, he changed all Marxist views. Meanwhile, he was interested in magic and consequently was attracted to Satanist groups. After the collapse of Marxist and Freudian materialist systems, he properly felt the vacuum resulted from the lack of religion and spirituality in the West and took to writing novels in order to meet man's natural need for mysticism and spirituality. To this end, he presented the world Marxist, nihilist and Satanist thoughts under the guise of mysticism and spirituality through a simple and explicit language. Using a descriptive-analytical method, the present paper seeks to compare Marxist, nihilist and Satanist thoughts with Coelho's thoughts and proves that he was greatly influenced by Marxism and Satanism in his literature and that he adopted a secular type of mysticism.