Contingency of Subjectivity in Coelho‟s The Winner Stands Alone

Abstract

This research examines Paulo Coelho‟s The Winner Stands Alone from the perspective of the postmodernist idea of subjectivity and agency against the traditional notion. For this, major characters like Igor, Ewa and Gabriela have strongly opposed the traditional figure of high class women. This research raises questions like, “why does Ewa leave Igor satisfy all”? In addition, “why does Coelho present Ewa‟s conflict with her husband and her conception of Igor as a mentally unbalanced man throughout the novel”? The implication is that, Paulo Coelho presents the traditional notion of one‟s subjectivity and the ideologies of emerging super class, which from the gap and rivalry between to their own individual identity. Ewa‟s act of dissatisfaction against Igor and Igor‟s anger towards the role of society is the protest against the traditional notion.