Differences in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

This video is about the differences I found when comparing between the English version of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and the Spanish version. There were many differences that I found, which is what compelled me to make a video blog about it.

The pictures of the book pages are taken by myself, from those two books, and the rest of the pictures of different Alchemist paintings and Gold are from wikipedia.

Please feel free to comment or reply to my questions, and let me know if you know the answer as to why the translations are different, or whether you found similar instances of translation differences before. Thanks!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• the alchemist
• paulo coelho
• differences
• comparisons
• english version
• spanish version
• gold
• alchemy
• book translations

[amanismu]

you made a video for just a book !! .. i would have just ignored everything !!

[EmeraldxFairy]

@amanismu Thank you for your comment - and I'm glad you liked the video. :)

[dan1elpess0a]

Very nice video!

[EmeraldxFairy]

@dan1elpess0a Thank you for your comment! :)

[t4214u14me]

Good thing I came across this video; I thought I was the only one that wanted to compare the two languages. I have only just begun reading, but I already found a difference in the translations. In the first few paragraphs, the Spanish version mentions that the boy "woke up and took a sip of wine" but it is not in the English version.

[tomashagan]

The part, which is about the fire arm to kill the deer and the masturbation, is taken off from the original version for the censorship; it's a disgrace to alter like this.

[tomashagan]

Obviously, some parts are removed from the original version on purpose. It's a censorship in the US and other English speaking countries. There are a group of people, who don't the general public to think the "secret knowledge" does exist. The same group of people uses this knowledge for their own benefit. There are some people, like "J", to whom Paulo Coelho dedicate the book, who tapped into this hidden knowledge. The book, "Source Field" by Wilcock explains it well.

[gguardad]

@gguardad You're welcome.... Thank God for internet. This is something that no one can't control in a way. They do have a specialist team dough to block or remove things that can be extremely harming to viewers and can be sensitive for kids etc., Good luck...

[EmeraldxFairy]

@gguardad Hi! Thank you for your comment. I agree with you about the censoring system here in America. However, I was actually surprised to see that there are more movies that are censored in other countries which we think are more open than our country, and that we are actually most open about things. I don't know about books, but I guess what I'm saying is that I could only blame myself for not looking beyond the censors. After all, the internet makes everything available to us these days.