Starting July 23, 2018, Channel One will begin broadcasting the series “The Alchemist. Elixir of Faust.” The mystical detective melodrama will air immediately after the “Time” program on weekdays. The series consists of 12 episodes. "The Alchemist" has already been shown on Ukrainian television, the show was on the ICTV channel.
The Sprint-Answer website will introduce readers to the plot and summary of the episodes of the series "The Alchemist", as well as information about the cast of the series.
Year: 2014.
Number of episodes: 12.
Director: Alexander Muratov.
Cast: Igor Petrenko (Andrey Nevelsky), Artem Tkachenko (Mark Terentyev), Viktor Rakov (Nikolai Belozer), Svetlana Ivanova (Olga), Evgenia Dobrovolskaya (Lyuba Nevelskaya), Andrey Ilyin (Dr. Khvoshchev), Yuri Belyaev (Leonid Bolotin), Pavel Barshak (Ivan Nevelsky), Elena Radevich (Yulia), Boris Shcherbakov (civil general), Sergei Stepanchenko (Igor Smarchenko), Yulia Rutberg (Irina Timofeevna), Tatyana Abramova (Valentina), Fedor Lavrov (Oswald Reiner), Kirill Zhandarov (Gennady Alalykin ) and others.
Scenario: Alexey Timm.
Producer: Anatoly Chizhikov, Sergei Kulikov, Natalia Chizhikova.
Operator: Ilshat Shugaev.
Composer: Nikolai Parfenyuk.
Genre: Mystical detective melodrama.
Series "The Alchemist. Elixir of Faust" description of episodes
The plot of the series "The Alchemist. Elixir of Faust"
1916 Professor Alexander Nevelsky, while practicing alchemy, receives the Elixir of Faust, which allows people to endlessly prolong their lives. English intelligence officer Oswald Rayner kills Nevelsky and steals all his notes and a bottle of elixir. In turn, his mistress, the Astoria maid, steals this bottle from Reiner. In 1983, the professor’s son, Sergei Nevelsky, died, and before his death he told his son Andrei about his grandfather’s discovery. At the same time, Mark Terentyev, the son of that same maid from Astoria, visits Andrey. After being wounded in the war, Terentyev tried the healing power of the elixir on himself and now urgently needs a new portion of it.
Alchemy is a specific area of natural philosophy, formed in the bosom of the Hermetic tradition.
More and more new participants are gradually involved in this mystical business. On the one hand, these are KGB officers who need the elixir to save the terminally ill Andropov, on the other hand, Reiner and his assistant Freemasons in Russia, on the third - the lone knight Mark Terentyev, and, finally, the heir to the dynasty of alchemists himself - Andrei Nevelsky , who dreams of simply doing scientific work.
Where was the series "The Alchemist. Elixir of Faust" filmed?
The film was shot in Belarus and Moscow. The Nevelsky house was filmed in an old estate in the Museum of Applied Crafts near Minsk. Production designer Alexander Maksimovich reconstructed and transformed this museum for different generations of alchemists in the film, looked for something from documents, and added something to the creators using computer graphics. The museum has preserved much of what was used in the film, creating a special exhibition about alchemists of the early last century.
"The Alchemist. Faust's Elixir" episode contents
Episode 1
1916 Professor Alexander Nevelsky, together with his son Sergei, while practicing alchemy, receives the Elixir of Faust, which allows people to endlessly prolong their lives. His first patient is Grigory Rasputin. English intelligence officer Oswald Rayner kills Nevelsky and steals all his notes and a bottle of elixir. In turn, his mistress, the Astoria maid, steals this drink from Reiner. In 1983, the dying Sergei Nevelsky tells his son Andrei about his grandfather’s discovery. At the same time, Mark Terentyev, the son of that same maid from Astoria, comes to Andrei for the elixir. Mark is 65 years old. After being wounded in the war, Mark tried the healing power of the elixir on himself and now, in order not to die, he urgently needs a new portion of it.
Episode 2
Having discovered a bottle of Faust's Elixir hidden by his father, Andrei shares part of it with Mark and is convinced in practice how effectively the substance works. At the funeral of Sergei Nevelsky, an official of the Ministry of Health Bolotin appears, who begins to show increased interest in the Nevelsky family. Being a young scientist himself, Andrey intends to resume the production of the elixir. But for this he needs materials that cannot be obtained through official means. Also, for his alchemical experiments, he needs a weather forecast about magnetic storms. He meets Olga from the Institute of Geophysics, and they begin dating.
Episode 3
KGB captain Belozer, on his own initiative, begins to look for the customer of the mercury and gradually leads to Andrei. Bolotin instructs a certain Gloomy what exactly he needs to secretly find in the Nevelskys’ house. In turn, Mark is keeping an eye on Bolotin and his connections. Terentyev kills Ugryumy, who entered the Nevelskys’ house, and soon Ugryumy’s body is discovered at the door of Bolotin’s apartment. A Masonic trace begins to appear in history, stretching back to 1916. Andrey moves to a new job at the Institute of Chemical Technology, where he has the opportunity to use the laboratory.
Episode 4
KGB Colonel Smarchenko, having received instructions from his superiors, orders Belozer to deal with Andrei, but only “very secretly.” Andrey and Olga submit an application to the registry office and begin their life together. To improve his financial situation, Andrey, through Mark, sells part of his alchemical gold. At the institute, Andrey uses an elixir to “revive” a geranium leaf. Belozer and Alalykin catch him during this experiment and take the elixir for testing.
Episode 5
In the KGB laboratory, the elixir is tested on mice, and it shows its anti-aging properties. Bolotin finds out about this and immediately tries to put the brakes on everything, but information about the miracle substance is already reaching the very top - to the terminally ill General Secretary Andropov. Belozer meets investigator Yurevich, who is investigating the murder of Ugryumy. The same English intelligence officer Rainer from 1916 flies to Moscow: he looks no more than fifty years old. It turns out that Bolotin is Rayner's secret agent, and they work together on the Elixir of Faust. The killer kills an investigator from the prosecutor's office who got too close to Bolotin. Sister Lyuba gives Andrey a bottle of elixir left from his father so that he can hand it over to the KGB.
Episode 6
Andrey hands over the bottle of elixir to Belozer. Inspired by the success, the KGB officers hand over the elixir for examination, alas, personally into the hands of Bolotin. Alalykin, also belonging to the secret Order, tries to shoot Mark. Mark intends to get even with Bolotin, but the mortally wounded Bolotin manages to drink the elixir and remains alive. Bolotin, instead of the elixir, pours plain water into the bottle and gives it for examination. During a meeting with his secret boss in the Order, Dubinets, Bolotin demands that Andrei be eliminated, but is refused: the figure of an alchemist is untouchable for the Masons. Belozer begins to suspect Bolotin. However, Andropov’s death changes a lot; the alchemists’ case is closed. Belozer is forced to leave the KGB for police service. After the birth of her son Ivan, Olga has health problems: in the Nevelsky family there is a belief that alchemy negatively affects their women.
Episode 7
Mark, in London, enters Oswald Rayner's mansion and tells him that he is his own son. A blood test confirms this. Nevertheless, Terentyev and Reiner part as enemies. August 1991. There is complete discord in Russia. Alalykin steals official documents from the KGB, including those about the alchemists’ case. Olga is dying. Andrei and seven-year-old Vanya continue to create the Elixir of Faust to save her. Mark returns to Moscow. Alalykin and his partner break into the Nevelskys’ house and search. Vanya cannot stop them, but he calls a family friend, doctor Khvoshchev, and he, armed with a pistol, forces the KGB officers to retreat.
Episode 8
Olga dies in the hospital. It was at this time that Andrei and Vanya manage to synthesize the elixir. The KGB officers, Bolotin and his henchmen, and Mark come one after another to the Nevelsky house for the elixir. Andrei sends Vanya to hide the documents, and he locks himself in the basement. A fight occurs between the uninvited guests, as a result of which Andrei is mortally wounded. Alalykin manages to escape. Belozer, on duty, conducts the investigation, but the case is soon taken away from him. To minimize the negative consequences of the stress he has experienced, Dr. Khvoshchev hypnotizes Vanya, completely blocking his memory.
Episode 9
An unknown person in a car is blocking the road for Khvoshchev, who is traveling with Vanya. The bandit kills Khvoshchev, Alalykin, who was following their car, enters into a shootout with an unknown person, but he escapes. Apparently the unknown person needed Vanya. Alalykin kidnaps the boy, but is soon forced to let him go, since Vanya doesn’t remember anything, and therefore is useless to him.
Vanya is placed in the Institute of Psychiatry, where they find out that he has retrograde amnesia caused by artificial blocking. Mark finds an old package with “Powder of Destiny” in the old clock of the Nevelsky house. The bandits are looking for the Nevelsky inheritance, they torture Lyuba, but Nikolai Belozer saves her. Belozer tells the doctors Vanya’s story and asks the doctors, if possible, not to advertise the boy’s presence at the institute. The bandits try to kidnap Vanya from the clinic, but they fail. Lyuba is in serious condition in the hospital and before her death asks Belozer to become Vanya’s guardian.
year 2013. Ivan's watercolors were posted on the Internet. Yulia Baykova became interested in talented abstract works. She goes to the artist to negotiate a collaboration. She recognizes Ivan as a childhood friend who once helped her catch a runaway goat. Yulia goes to Ivan’s guardian Nikolai Belozer, who keeps the Nevelskys’ house in order.
Episode 10
Julia persuaded Belozer to exhibit and sell Ivan’s paintings. Mark accidentally sees banners advertising the exhibition and is surprised by the striking similarity of the painting to an old drawing by Andrei Nevelsky. Terentyev reports this news to Chistyakov, because there are hopes that the production of the elixir can be resumed. Mark does not have the money to buy back the artist’s paintings, so he invites Chistyakov to start producing gold from powder, seven grams of which is enough to produce one kilogram of gold. And then, through Julia, contact Ivan Nevelsky, so that he would continue the work of the dynasty in the production of the elixir that Mark so needed.
Ivan is in love with Yulia and wants to remember his past life. Dubinets keeps Chistyakov and Terentyev in his field of vision and knows about Chistyakov’s gold sales. Dibinets' henchmen kill Chistyakov. Mark buys all of Ivan’s works and tries to win Yulia over to his side, because it is in Ivan’s interests to remember everything. Dubinets comes to London to see Reiner. He instructs Dubinets to take care of Ivan Nevelsky and persuade him to work for the Order or destroy him.
Yulia gives the money received from the sale of paintings to Belozer and goes to clean up the Nevelskys’ house. There she finds a tape with a recording left by Khvoshchev. The tape contains a code phrase to return Ivan's memory.
Bolotin helps Dubinets take Ivan away from the clinic for a while. Bolotin calls Mark and informs him about this. Doctors failed to restore Ivan’s memory and Dubinets decides to kill Ivan with an injection with a virus. But Mark Terentyev appears on time. Dubinets escapes, but Bolotin kills him, taking out all his accumulated anger on his curator in several shots. The murder is filmed by Dubinets' assistant, the killer Vitaly.
Yulia and Belozer go to the clinic, where, with the help of a magnetic tape and a hypnologist, Ivan is brought out of unconsciousness. Julia informs Mark about this. Ivan and Yulia are in love and happy. Ivan also begins to explore the world using the Internet.
Episode 11
Mark comes to Ivan, he remembered him. Mark warns Ivan about the danger that threatens him. That Ivan has two options: either pretend that he is an ordinary person and knows nothing, or take up alchemy, but then he will become a target at the shooting gallery. Mark will guard him.
Alalykin demands Bolotin to take his share of the elixir. Mark ends up in Bolotin’s car, who asks Bolotin to keep in touch with the Order and convince them that Ivan knows nothing and is under supervision.
Ivan goes down to the basement. Yulia goes down to the laboratory and there Vanya proposes to her. Julia agrees, but on the condition that he will not engage in alchemy. Vanya agrees, he doesn’t want to do this anymore and is in love with Yulia.
Dubinets's former assistant Vitaly is watching Bolotin and blackmailing him with a video recording of the murder. He did not prevent that murder, because he was tired of the boss and wanted to work for the more progressive Bolotin. Bolotin instructs him to remove Alalykin, if everything goes smoothly, he will take Vitaly to work for himself.
Yulia will be awakened by the doorbell; Belozer has come to visit. Mark went to the cemetery early, Mark was waiting for him there. Terentyev began to explain his goals to Vanya, but Vanya understood him perfectly and said that he was not interested. In essence, Mark invites Ivan to establish world domination - to destroy the old Order and build a new one. Nevelsky has already lost his mother and father and does not want to lose anyone else. To top it off, Ivan asked Mark to touch his hand, Mark’s hand was pushed away by an unknown force. Ivan admits to Mark that he still doesn’t fully know himself.
GRUshnik Evgeniy Ignatievich (Boris Shcherbakov), who is monitoring Ivan, is amazed at the huge volumes of information Ivan consumes from the Internet. It turns out that the killer Vitaly actually works for a GRU general. Evgeniy Ignatievich is not against Vitaly fulfilling Bolotin’s order. Vitaly kills Alalykin at a car wash.
Ivan increasingly notices his supernatural abilities. He lit the gas in the oven without matches and found all the bugs installed by Evgeniy Ignatievich’s team. But Vanya is becoming more and more convinced that he doesn’t need this. GRUshnik still wants Yulia and Vanya to break up, since Yulia is an advanced girl and if something happens she can make a fuss. He also instructs Vitaly to find Mark, since the time has come for a frank conversation. They also decided to deal with another person initiated into these matters - Alalykin’s uncle, retired General Smarchenko.
Vanya bought a gold bracelet with diamonds with his last money and gave it to Yulia. Julia was, to put it mildly, not delighted with such a gift, since she was having troubles with work, and in general she had something to live for. As a result of his emotions, Ivan, with his extraordinary abilities, heated up the bracelet and turned it into copper, while receiving a slight burn on his palm. Julia got scared and ran away.
Episode 12
Reiner meets with Bolotin and also calls his son Mark. He knows that Bolotin is completely in Mark’s hands. But Mark refuses to cooperate with Reiner.
Ivan finds a briefcase with Faust's elixir, gold and a book with notes. Saying that everything is a thousand times simpler than they thought, he burns the book. He brings gold to Yulia and asks her to take it. And if she decides to return, he will be waiting for her.
Evgeniy Ignatievich tells Vitaly, who has already understood that they went on a free voyage, about the immediate tasks. They need to provoke Ivan Nevelsky, cut off all his connections, push him to the extreme so that he can show the maximum of his capabilities. And then they will think about what level to report to and whether to report at all. He also instructs to carefully remove the gold from Yulia.
Mark came to visit Valya, and a little later Evgeniy Ignatievich came to talk to him. He invites Mark to cooperate, talking about possible dangers to the life of Ivan Nevelsky. Mark is afraid of a more significant threat, because Oswald Reiner, who shot Rasputin, arrives in Moscow. He once killed Ivan's great-grandfather and now the cycle must end.
The ex-husband agreed to help Yulia sell the gold, but he discovers Yulia unconscious in the elevator. Meanwhile, Reiner tells Bolotin that he must personally kill Ivan - this will be his initiation into a new level of the Order.
Ivan called Mark and asked him to come, because he felt something bad was coming. Mark drove up to Ivan's house, but noticed a car approaching. He took aim at Bolotov, but he himself found himself at gunpoint at Reiner. Bolotov went to kill Vanya, but he couldn’t, Ivan told him where there was another way out and he left. Reiner shoots at Mark, and Belozer, who appears in time, shoots at Reiner. Both are wounded, but Reiner is finished off by Vitaly who appears.
Evgeniy Ignatievich invites Ivan to give him the powder and collaborate with them in the future. Ivan opens the container with the powder, which begins to emit light. Mark discovers Vitaly and his boss unconscious, while Vanya and Belozer are going after Yulia.
Paulo Coelho
Preface
I consider it my duty to warn the reader that “The Alchemist” is a symbolic book, which is why it differs from “The Diary of a Magician,” where there is not a word of fiction.
I devoted eleven years of my life to the study of alchemy. The mere possibility of turning metal into gold or discovering the Elixir of Immortality is too tempting for anyone taking their first steps in magic. I confess that the Elixir made a stronger impression on me, because until I realized and felt the existence of God, the thought that someday everything would end forever seemed unbearable to me. So, having learned about the possibility of creating a certain liquid that could prolong our earthly existence for many, many years, I decided to devote myself entirely to making this elixir.
This was in the early seventies, during an era of great social transformation, when there was no serious work on alchemy yet. I, like one of the heroes of this book, spent my meager funds on acquiring foreign books, and my time on studying their complex symbolic language. In Rio de Janeiro I managed to find two or three scientists who were seriously studying the Great Creation, but they refused to meet with me. I also met many who called themselves alchemists, owned laboratories, and promised to reveal to me the secrets of their art for fabulous money; Now I understand that they did not understand anything about what they were going to teach.
My diligence and zeal yielded absolutely no results. I could not do anything that the alchemy textbooks, filled with countless symbols: dragons, suns, lions, moons, repeated in their intricate language. And it always seemed to me that I was moving in the wrong direction, because symbolic language opens up the widest scope for misinterpretations. In 1973, in despair that I had not progressed an inch in my studies, I committed an act of great irresponsibility. At that time, the Mato Grosso State Education Department invited me to teach theater classes, and I used my students to stage “laboratory” performances on the theme of the Emerald Tablet. It was not in vain for me, and such experiments, coupled with my other attempts to establish myself on the shaky ground of Magic, led to the fact that within a year I could see in my own skin the veracity of the saying “No matter how the rope twists, the end will come.”
For the next six years of my life, I treated everything that had to do with mysticism with considerable skepticism. In this spiritual exile, I made several important conclusions for myself: we accept this or that truth only after we first reject it with all our souls; You don’t have to run away from your own destiny - you won’t escape anyway; The Lord demands strictly, but His mercy is limitless.
In 1981, I met the Teacher, who was destined to return me to my previous path. While he was instructing me, I again, at my own peril and risk, began to study alchemy. One evening, after a grueling session of telepathy, I asked why alchemists express themselves so complexly and so vaguely.
There are three types of alchemists,” he answered. - Some people gravitate towards uncertainty because they themselves do not know their subject. Others know it, but they also know that the language of alchemy is directed to the heart, not to the mind.
And the third? - I asked.
Still others are those who have never heard of alchemy, but managed to discover the Philosopher’s Stone with their whole lives.
And after that, my Teacher, who belonged to the second type, decided to give me alchemy lessons. I soon realized that her symbolic language, which had so many times confused and irritated me, was the only way to reach the Soul of the World, or what Jung called the “collective unconscious.” I discovered My Path and the Signs of God - truths that my intellect had previously refused to accept because of their simplicity. I learned that the task of achieving the Great Creation does not lie with a select few, but with all who inhabit the Earth. Not always, of course. The Great Creation appears to us in the form of an egg and a bottle of liquid, but each of us is capable - there is no shadow of doubt about this - to plunge into the Soul of the World.
The novel begins with a preface in which the author warns that the novel itself is fictional and has symbolic meaning. He further reports that he himself was engaged in alchemy for a long time, but his search came to a dead end until he met one person who explained to him in which direction he should move and what he was doing wrong. The preface ends with a parable.
In the prologue, the alchemist reads Oscar Wilde's book about the narcissus and finds it wonderful.
The young man, the main character, was called Santiago. He was herding sheep and drove them to spend the night in a dilapidated church. He also slept, spreading his jacket on the floor. He had the same dream for the second time, which he again did not watch to the end. He began to awaken the sheep, with whom he already felt a connection. And I thought about the girl. Exactly a year ago, he sold wool to a local merchant, and while he was waiting in line, he met his daughter. The merchant said to come again in a year, and now there were four days left. In the meantime, he, a shepherd, was driving sheep on a cold morning and felt the need for a jacket. Memories from childhood came to mind. He studied at the seminary, but wanted to travel and, with the blessing of his father, became a shepherd.
Entering the nearest town, Santiago went to an old woman who knew how to interpret dreams, and told her his dream. He dreamed that a child came up to him in a pasture and carried him to the Egyptian pyramids. Here you will find a treasure, said the child. The old woman undertook to interpret the dream for a tenth of the treasure found in the future, and said that we must go to Egypt, to the pyramids. Santiago was annoyed because he did not hear anything new. Leaving the old woman, he went to the square, where, sitting on a bench, he began to read a book, which he had recently exchanged for another. He left the sheep with a friend at the entrance to the city. The book seemed boring to him, but he was distracted by some old man who sat down next to him. He tried hard to talk to Santiago. Finally, they got to talking, the old man introduced himself as King Melchizedek and told Santiago the story of his whole life. He said that we must follow His Path, and promised to advise how to get to the treasure for a tenth of the sheep, after which he disappeared. Santiago wandered the streets for a long time, thinking about what had happened. The next day he brought in several sheep and sold the rest to a friend. The old man said that we must go to Egypt, to the pyramids. Nothing new again. And signs will help you along the way. And two stones that the old man gave to the young man. And then he told an instructive story and disappeared with the sheep. And Santiago headed to Africa. In a small cafe on the African coast, everyone spoke Arabic, which caused inconvenience. Finally, one local came along and spoke Spanish. He promised Santiago that he would get to the pyramids, and despite the angry shop owner, he followed the new guide. They went to the market, and the conductor took all of Santiago’s money, saying that they needed to buy animals and provisions. He disappeared into the market, along with the money. Santiago was left alone in a foreign country and without money. And I wanted to return, but I didn’t know how. In addition, the stone given by the old man indicated the need to continue the journey. After spending the night at the market, he helped a sweets seller set up a stall in the morning and received a pie. After wandering around, Santiago came to the shop of a crystal merchant and offered to wash the goods. The shop was on the outskirts of the market and in disrepair, and the owner was upset. After washing the glasses, Santiago and the owner went to the cafe. The Arab invited the young man to work for him and assured him that the pyramids were far away, so there was no need to even think about a quick trip. More chances to return back to Spain. After a month of working in the shop, Santiago began to propose innovations. First, they installed a stand with product samples on the street, and then decided to treat all visitors to tea from crystal glasses. As a result, the store became full of customers, and they even had to hire two more people. Six months later, Santiago left the crystal merchant's shop, having received his share and the merchant's blessing. The young man could not decide to return to Spain, something told him to continue the journey. And he headed to the warehouse to ask if the pyramids were really that far away. At the warehouse he met an Englishman who was reading books. This Englishman studied alchemy, spent most of his fortune on books, and achieved almost nothing. And now he was heading to the oasis where the famous alchemist lived. It turned out that a caravan heading to Egypt would soon set off. Santiago decided to go with him. Along the way, Santiago thought about nature, and the Englishman read his books. One day at a rest stop, the driver said that a war had broken out between the tribes, and therefore they were in danger and needed to be careful. They continued their journey carefully and eventually came to an oasis. It was a large village with many trees, tents, and several wells. Local residents warmly welcomed the travelers and placed them in tents. A few days later, Santiago met with an Englishman near the well, and he complained that he still could not find the alchemist, asking for help from Santiago, who knew Arabic. He unsuccessfully tried to find out something from the local residents. Suddenly, an unmarried girl approached the well, and Santiago suddenly realized that this was his betrothed. Her name was Fatima. She pointed out where the alchemist lived. The next day, Santiago was waiting for her near the well, and when she arrived, he immediately invited her to become his wife. They met near the well for a month, he told her everything. The tribal war was still ongoing, so it was risky to continue the journey. One day, Santiago went into the desert, far from the oasis, and while watching the hawks, he saw a vision of warriors capturing the oasis. When he returned, he told the elders about it, who promised to take action. On the way to his tent, Santiago met an alchemist who invited him to his place. The next day, warriors did burst into the oasis, but this was not unexpected. After what happened, the leaders invited Santiago to stay in the oasis as a fortuneteller. But the alchemist, upon meeting, insisted on continuing the path to the treasures. He advised to buy a horse and agreed to be the young man’s guide. The next evening they went into the desert. The alchemist asked to show the life of the desert and explained why it was necessary to continue the path. We agreed to leave early in the morning. At night, Santiago went to Fatima and heard from her a promise to wait for him until he returned. After several days of a dangerous trek through the desert, the alchemist told Santiago to listen to the voice of his heart. Several times they saw warriors in the distance, but Santiago was no longer afraid. And once three warriors approached them, but let them go. As he continued his journey, the alchemist communicated with the young man, telling him what he himself knew. One day they were stopped by soldiers and brought to their camp. The alchemist gave all the gold Santiago had earned in the crystal merchant's shop and said that the young man was an alchemist and could show the power of the wind, promising that he would show what he could do in three days. Santiago was scared and did not know how to carry out the alchemist’s words. Three days later, everyone went out into the desert, and Santiago, moving some distance from the others, began to talk to the desert about love, but it could only give sand, the help of the wind was needed. The wind agreed to help, and a cloud of sand soared into the sky, the sun almost became invisible. Everyone was scared. But the wind could not answer Santiago’s questions about love and advised him to turn to the sun. But the sun couldn’t help either and advised me to ask the Hand That Wrote Everything. And, turning, he plunged into the Soul of the World. When the wind died down, the young man was found at the other end of the camp, half-buried with sand. The next day, the leader released the travelers to all four directions. After a day of travel, they arrived at the monastery and the alchemist said that it was three hours to the pyramids, and Santiago would go further alone. In the courtyard of the monastery, the alchemist made gold from a piece of lead, and dividing it into four parts, he took one for himself, gave one to the monk, one to Santiago, and left one in the monastery for Santiago to take later. Before leaving, the alchemist told a parable about the children of an old man, a poet and a warrior, one of whom was destined to become famous. After that, they said goodbye and Santiago headed towards the pyramids. In the place that he dreamed, he cried and thanked that he was able to believe in His Path. And admired the pyramids. Then he started digging, hoping to find treasure. Several people approached him, took the gold from him, beat him severely, and upon learning that he was looking for treasure, one of them let slip that at this place he also had a dream about treasures somewhere in a ruined church in Spain, but he didn’t stupid enough to believe dreams. The robbers left, and Santiago realized that he had found treasure.
The epilogue tells that Santiago returned to Spain and found a chest full of treasures under the arches of the destroyed church, the one in which he had a dream. He thought about the alchemist, about the gypsy to whom he owed a tenth of the treasures he found, and about the girl who was waiting for him in the desert, about Fatima. He was happy and ready to go to Fatima.
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Brazilian novelist and poet. He published a total of more than 20 books - novels, commentary anthologies, collections of short stories and parables. He became famous in Russia after the publication of “ Alchemist”, which remained in the top ten bestsellers for a long time. The total circulation in all languages exceeds 300 million.
“A lchemist”
Summary of the novel
“When you really want something, the whole Universe will help make your wish come true.”
Published in more than 117 countries and translated into 67 languages.
In 2002, the Portuguese magazine Di Letras, an authority on local literature and the literary market, announced that The Alchemist had sold more copies than any other book written in Portuguese in the history of the language.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a favorite book of Robin Sharma and Nichkhun, a member of the K-pop boy band 2PM.
The main plot is taken from European folklore: according to the classification of folklore plots by Aarne-Thompson-Uther - plot 1645 “Treasure of the House”. A typical representative is the English fairy tale “The Pedlar of Swaffham,” as well as one of the episodes of “The Thousand and One Nights.”
The main character of the book is the shepherd Santiago, who lives in Andalusia. One day he had a dream that beckoned him to go to the Egyptian pyramids to find treasure.
The gypsy unraveled his dream in exchange for one tenth of the treasures he would find in the future. He meets the old man Melchizedek, King of Salem, who persuades him to go to Egypt and gives him two stones, Urim and Thummim, which in the future will help him find answers to difficult situations in exchange for one tenth of his cattle.
Santiago sells his sheep and sails to Africa. He loses all his money. He becomes an assistant to a crystal seller and uses the money he earns to go to the pyramids. On the trip, he meets an Englishman, thanks to whom he learns about the Alchemist. Then he finds the Alchemist in the El-Fayum oasis.
The alchemist teaches him to know the “soul of the world,” talks about Alchemy and helps him follow the path of His Destiny. He falls in love with Fatima. He finds treasures not in Egypt, but in his homeland - Spain. And he passes all the tests that fate has in store for him.
The narrative of Paolo Coelho's novel “The Alchemist” is about a young man named Santiago. Santiago is a sheep shepherd. Contrary to his parents, who wanted him to become a priest, Santiago became a shepherd, as he was attracted by travel. One day he stopped for the night in an abandoned church, and he had a dream that he had had before: in his dream, Santiago was going to the Egopetian pyramids to find a treasure.
Santiago went to the gypsy woman so that she could interpret his dream. She explained his dream in exchange for a promise to give her one tenth of the treasures that Santiago would discover. Santiago is waiting for the moment until he can again see the clothier’s daughter, whom he liked the last time he came. There are only a few days left until this event. Shortly before this, he meets a wonderful old man who calls himself the king of Salim. The old man persuades him to go for the treasure and gives him 2 magic stones that will help him find the answer to a difficult situation. For his help, the old man asks Santiago for one tenth of his herd.
Santiago hesitates, but still decides to go to Egypt, having received and interpreted several signs. He sells the flock to his friend, who, it turns out, has long dreamed of becoming a shepherd, and without waiting to meet the clothier’s daughter, he sets off on the road.
Having sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar, he ends up in Tangier. There, a fraudster gains his trust and leaves him without money. This circumstance does not lead Santiago astray: he gets a job in a shop that sells crystal, and in a short time helps the owner expand the business and earn much more. Santiago himself earned much more than he lost, and, after some time, he again sets out on the road to the pyramids. He meets an Englishman who also patiently follows his path - he wants to become an alchemist. They join a caravan traveling through the desert. On the way, Santiago becomes close to the desert and begins to feel it as something alive. At an oasis where they made a long stop, he falls in love with a child of the desert, a beautiful girl named Fatima, who promises to wait for him while he walks through the desert. One day, Santiago felt that enemies were approaching the oasis, and reported this to the leaders, who believed him, but if he made a mistake, they promised to kill him. The enemies actually attacked, were defeated, and Santiago became an adviser to the leaders. After this incident, Santiago was found by the Alchemist, whom the Englishman accompanying the caravan had been looking for.
The Alchemist and Santiago travel to the pyramids to find the treasure that Santiago saw in his dream. On the way, Santiago improves even more and learns to feel himself, his path, the desert. And when they are captured by their enemies, Santiago turns into the wind, defeating the desert, the sun, the wind.
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At the very pyramids, robbers attack Santiago, beat him and take all his gold. Santiago says that he is following his dream, following his path, which led him to the pyramids. One of the robbers laughs at him and says that he also had a dream that he should go to Andalusia (where Santiago is from) and find treasures in the old church (where Santiago spent the night).
Santiago returns home and finds countless treasures in the old church.
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Paulo Coelho – “The Alchemist” – summary of the novel updated: November 14, 2016 by: website
Paulo Paulo
PREFACE
I consider it my duty to warn the reader that “The Alchemist” is a symbolic book, which is why it differs from “The Diary of a Magician,” where there is not a word of fiction.
I devoted eleven years of my life to the study of alchemy. The mere possibility of turning metal into gold or discovering the Elixir of Immortality is too tempting for anyone taking their first steps in magic. I confess that the Elixir made a stronger impression on me, because until I realized and felt the existence of God, the thought that someday everything would end forever seemed unbearable to me. So, having learned about the possibility of creating a certain liquid that could prolong our earthly existence for many, many years, I decided to devote myself entirely to making this elixir.
This was in the early seventies, during an era of great social change, when there was no serious work on alchemy. I, like one of the heroes of this book, spent my meager funds on acquiring foreign books, and my time on studying their complex symbolic language. In Rio de Janeiro I managed to find two or three scientists who were seriously studying the Great Creation, but they refused to meet with me. I also met many who called themselves alchemists, owned laboratories, and promised to reveal to me the secrets of their art for fabulous money; Now I understand that they did not understand anything about what they were going to teach.
My diligence and zeal yielded absolutely no results. I could not do anything that the alchemy textbooks, filled with countless symbols: dragons, suns, lions, moons, repeated in their intricate language. And it always seemed to me that I was moving in the wrong direction, because symbolic language opens up the widest scope for misinterpretations. In 1973, in despair that I had not progressed an inch in my studies, I committed an act of great irresponsibility. At that time, the Mato Grosso State Education Department invited me to teach theater classes, and I used my students to stage “laboratory” performances on the theme of the Emerald Tablet. It was not in vain for me, and such experiments, coupled with my other attempts to establish myself on the shaky ground of Magic, led to the fact that within a year I could see in my own skin the veracity of the saying “No matter how the rope twists, the end will come.”
For the next six years of my life, I treated everything that had to do with mysticism with considerable skepticism. In this spiritual exile, I made several important conclusions for myself: we accept this or that truth only after we first reject it with all our souls; You don’t have to run away from your own fate - you won’t escape anyway; The Lord demands strictly, but His mercy is limitless.
In 1981, I met the Teacher, who was destined to return me to my previous path. While he was instructing me, I again, at my own peril and risk, began to study alchemy. One evening, after a grueling session of telepathy, I asked why alchemists express themselves so complexly and so vaguely.
There are three types of alchemists,” he answered. - Some people gravitate towards uncertainty because they themselves do not know their subject. Others know it, but they also know that the language of alchemy is directed to the heart, not to the mind.
And the third? - I asked.
Still others are those who have never heard of alchemy, but managed to discover the Philosopher’s Stone with their whole lives.
And after that, my Teacher, who belonged to the second type, decided to give me alchemy lessons. I soon realized that her symbolic language, which had so confused and irritated me so many times, was the only way to reach the Soul of the World, or what Jung called the “collective unconscious.” I discovered My Path and the Signs of God - truths that my intellect had previously refused to accept because of their simplicity. I learned that the task of achieving the Great Creation does not lie with a select few, but with all who inhabit the Earth. Not always, of course. The Great Creation appears to us in the form of an egg and a bottle of liquid, but each of us is capable - there is no shadow of doubt about this - to plunge into the Soul of the World.
And therefore, “The Alchemist” is also a symbolic book, and on its pages I not only set out everything that I have learned on this issue, but also try to pay tribute to those great writers who were able to master the Universal Language: Hemingway, Blake, Borges (he also used in one of his stories an episode from the history of Persia), Malbu Tagan.
And concluding my overly lengthy preface and wanting to explain who my Master classified as an alchemist of the third type, I will give a story that he told me once in the laboratory.
One day, the Most Pure Virgin, holding the infant Christ in her arms, decided to descend to earth and visit a certain monastic monastery. Filled with pride, the monks lined up: each in turn came out to the Mother of God and showed their art in her honor: one read poems of his own composition, another demonstrated deep knowledge of the Bible, the third listed the names of all the saints. And so the brethren, to the best of their strength and talents, honored the Virgin and baby Jesus.
And the last one turned out to be a humble and wretched monk who could not even memorize the texts of the Holy Scriptures. His parents were uneducated people, they performed in the circus, and they only taught their son to juggle balls and other tricks.
When it was his turn, the monks wanted to stop the ceremony, because the poor juggler could not say anything to the Most Pure Virgin, but he could completely disgrace the monastery. But with all his soul he felt the urgent need to convey some part of himself to the Virgin and Child.
And so, embarrassed under the reproachful glances of his brothers, he took several oranges out of his pocket and began to throw them and catch them, that is, to do the only thing he knew how to do - juggle.
And only at that moment a smile appeared on Christ’s lips, and he clapped his hands. And only the poor juggler was handed her son by the Most Pure Virgin, entrusting him to hold him in her arms.
Dedicated to J.
To the alchemist who knew
the mystery of the Great Creation.
* * *Continuing their journey, He came to a certain village; here a woman named Martha received Him into her home; she had a sister named Mary, who sat at the feet of Jesus and listened to His word.
Martha was taking care of a great treat and, approaching, said: Lord! or do you not need that my sister left me alone to serve? tell her to help me.
Jesus answered and said to her: Martha! Marfa! you care and fuss about many things, but only one thing is needed; Mary chose the good part, which will not be taken away from her.
