![]() ![]() Eleven minutes is the sexual act itself between Maria and Ralf that only takes about eleven minutes.Eleven minutes is firmly rooted in Western spirituality as it proclaims the myths about the story of a prostitute whose sins were forgiven by Jesus. Her inner light renders a new magnificence to the binary of sacred love and profane love, sensuality and spirituality, fate and will, prostitution and marriage, overall the binary of body and soul. ![]() Maria explores an inner light through the journey of self-transcendence. The novel Eleven Minutes elevates prostitution to the realm of love and divinity. The binary pairs are juxtaposed by Maria’s expressive subjectivism. Here, in this novel the feminist approach to the profession of prostitution and novel’s expressivism make us think unconventionally about the conventional binaries of life like sacred and profane love. The notion deemed by Feminist approach is that a female body is the key to self-liberation. Through a mimetic-thematic dimension of narrative, we come to know about Maria’s self- actualization journey. The novel Eleven Minutes takes on a new look on the prostitution. Keywords: Feminist subjectivism, Binary, eleven minutes, prostitution, sacred, profane.Ībstract: Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian novelist and lyricist is best known for his transnational novels. Vol-6,Issue-4,July - August 2021 Author: Jabun Nahar ![]()
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