By: Felipe Argote
is not so much what you write but as you write. In this book, Isabel Allende draws water from a stone. Its large capacity as Rapporteur that I believe had its highest peak in the fabulous historical novel Ines del Alma Mia shows that the Chilean writer born in Peru is able to develop a relatively common history with gusts of genius.
Although most of the novel seems a compromise with the publisher rather than the development of a novel of literary quality, the publication I was entertained but not caught me.
There are some unfortunate passages like the stripper dressed as a policeman that led Lori, the second wife of his son Nico, Willie, husband of Elizabeth, to play a joke. I think I have seen this routine in two films and three television comedy shows.
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| Elizabeth and her second husband, Willie Gordon |
The sum of the days is a recent autobiography where the author lays bare the situation of his family, from of an imaginary conversation with her daughter Paula, who died of porphyria in 1992. He refers to his relationship with his other son Nico, his first wife, conservative to the core, a member of Opus Dei, who one day discovers that she is a lesbian and leaves to live with his partner Sally, who was then the wife of Jason, the son of Willie Gordon (name of cartoon character ), the husband of Isabel Allende, the children of this and their dependence on drugs, grandchildren and close friends. The tribe as she calls it.
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| One of his best books |
The book is a bit self-centered perspective that Elizabeth not only presents itself as the axis, but as a benefactor of the family. Most work for her in a house they call "the brothel" because it is understood that as a brothel occupied many years ago. There is the Chambers of Elizabeth, Lori, who heads the foundation of the author and Willie, her husband, who works as a lawyer. All that takes is family, he says repeatedly, through its financing.
I really think that stretches the novel to the point that unlike most of the publications of Isabel Allende, where I feel worried when I see pages and I just do not want to finish it's attractive book, this time I wondered when it would end. It seemed that everything had been said but I was missing a considerable number of pages to read. I was surprised that it relates to blacks or African Americans and prefer to call in the United States as "persons of color"
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| Ines Suarez, the first English woman to arrive in Chile and atrocities of the English colonizers |
In various parts of the memoir develops something like "Behind the scenes" of how he developed his novels: the youth trilogy consists of: The City and the Beast, fabulous novel, The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, a good novel but with some Hollywood type special effects, The Forest of the Pygmies who bored me at first reading it and left for another book.
Where life ends and fantasy begins is a line very difficult to establish probably even by the author herself.
recommend for entertaining reading but well below those of young and extremely trilogy under Portrait in Sepia, The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, Inés of My Soul and the Isle Under The Sea (See http://elblogdefelipeargote.blogspot.com/2010/04/la-isla-bajo-el-mar.html )
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| In an exhibition on Salvador Allende |
Isabel Allende is the niece in the second degree of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president killed by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Born in Peru while her father served as Chile's ambassador in that country, was in exile in Venezuela and after divorcing her first husband, Miguel Frias moved to California where she lives with her second husband, Willie Gordon for twenty years.
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