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From: Américas (English Edition)[(interview date November-December 1995) In the following interview, Allende discusses her writing process and her approach to marketing Paula.] The night before this interview I attended a talk by Isabel Allende at...
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From: Conversations with Isabel Allende[(essay date 1999) In the following interview, originally published in 1984, Agosín describes The House of the Spirits as a double text relating the story of the Trueba family as well as a political history of Chile....
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From: Conversations with Isabel Allende[(interview date 1987) The following interview was originally published in Spanish in 1987 and translated into English by Magdalena García Pinto and Trudy Balch. In the exchange, Allende reflects on such topics as how...
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From: Conversations with Isabel Allende[(interview date 1991) In the following interview, originally published in 1991, Allende considers the relationship between her novel Eva Luna and her story volume The Stories of Eva Luna.] Isabel Allende's novel The...
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From: Booklist[(interview date 15 November 2002) In the following interview, Allende discusses writing for a young audience, magic realism, and the characters and themes of City of the Beasts.] [Rochman]: Why a book for younger...
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From: AmericasThe night before this interview I attended a talk by Isabel Allende at Georgetown University--a stop on a long publicity tour for her memoir, Paula (Harper Collins). Allende spoke about her book, which she began in 1991...
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From: Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers[(interview date 1997) In the following interview, Allende discusses stylistic and thematic aspects of The Stories of Eva Luna.] Isabel Allende, a Chilean, was born in Lima, Peru, in 1942. Her career covers a wide...
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From:Supernatural Literature (Vol. 1: The Dead. )Isabel Allende Published in Spain in 1982, The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espiritus) by Isabel Allende (1942–) is a magical realist novel translated from Spanish into English in 1985 that chronicles the saga...
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From: NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly[(interview date spring 1999) In the following interview, Allende discusses her views of American culture, her place in literature, and the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.] [Skafidas]: Until you and...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Kelly Winters is a freelance writer and has written for a wide variety of academic and educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses feminist themes in The House of the Spirits. "Critics are terrible...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Isabel Allende broke into the ranks of the bestsellers with her first novel, La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits), a book that confirmed the link between Latin American writing and the label “magic...
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From: Publisher's WeeklySex and food, once celebrated as two of life's great joys, suffer a lot of bad press these days. Genuine epidemics, coupled with monthly findings of new things that are bad for us, have pushed otherwise happy souls into...
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From: Critical Approaches to Isabel Allende's Novels[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Rehbein examines the order and content of the narrative in Eva Luna, showing the power of a storyteller to shape time and reality to suit her own needs as well as the needs of...
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From: The Encyclia: The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Spanos examines the role of the main female character Casilda within the concepts of literary feminism in the short story "The Judge's Wife."] Isabel Allende has become...
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From: Women's Review of Books"Listen, Paula, I am going to tell you a story, so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost." With those simple, enchanted words, the Chilean novelist Isabel Allende begins Paula, a memoir of devastating passion...
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From: Multicultural Literatures Through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hart contends that Allende employs the technique of magic realism in The Stories of Eva Luna in order to present a feminist perspective on issues such as prostitution, domestic...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date summer 1996) In the following review, McMurray comments on Allende's literary accomplishment with Paula.] Isabel Allende's most recent book is a memoir dedicated to her daughter Paula, who died in 1992 at...
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From: The Women's Review of Books"And of Clay Are We Created"was inspired by the 1985 avalanche in Colombia that buried a village in mud. Among those trapped was Omaira Sánchez, a thirteen-year-old girl who became the focus of attention of news-hungry...
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From: Romance Studies[(essay date December 2001) In the following essay, Lindsay provides a socio-psychoanalytic reading of "Niña perversa" in order to examine Allende's use of romantic conventions in her fiction.] In an entry on...
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From: New Leader[(review date November-December 2001) In the following review, Graham finds the plot of Portrait in Sepia formulaic and predictable, but appreciates its perspectives on the human struggle to live and love.] On the...