The winner remains alone

Paulo Coelho dives into the world of the upper class, of celebrities, wealthy people, and those in power, without any preamble, and confronts them in the most difficult moments without masks or embellishments. He observes their behavior and actions in the face of a crisis they are experiencing. He pushes them towards us as they are, barefoot and exposed, while they are the ones planning for us how to live, where to step, and how much money, nerves, and time we should spend! The space we are allowed to occupy and the extent of dreams they permit us. They are the players who see nothing in life but the pleasure of life, and despite the noise and crowding, they are prisoners of loneliness and solitude. Twenty-four hours at the Cannes Film Festival, where Igor, coming to reclaim his love for his wife at any cost, is depicted by Paulo Coelho’s pen, analyzing and illustrating after he caused the festival attendees, claiming to be influential, to fall into an unavoidable crisis. In the novel “The Winner Stays Alone,” the trilogy of power, money, and fame, and how they dominate the souls, intensifies. In it, Paulo Coelho presents a world we live in or others live in, and we never noticed that all this strangeness and hidden secrets exist. A review of accounts, a moment of self-reflection, an internal discovery in a world that only believes in appearances, with tormentors and victims of orchestrated dreams chasing after them, unaware that all of this has a price that could be very high.