Isabel Allende: Life and Spirits (Hispanic Civil Rights) - Hardcover

Celia Correas Zapata

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558853634 ISBN 13: 9781558853638

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 2002

Synopsis

Isabel Allende: Life and Spirits is a passionate look at the life and literary work of one of the most renowned contemporary writers in Latin American literature. Celia Correas Zapata traces Isabel Allende's trajectory in Allende's own voice, through a series of interviews that reveal her experiences, her family environment, and the genesis and creation of her triumphs.Isabel Allende: Life and Spirits allows the reader to explore the intimate life of the Chilean author, a woman who produces novels that shake the emotional fibers of millions of readers throughout the world. Finally, in this book, her readers will have a true portrait of Isabel Allende: the writer and the woman.

About this title

About the Author:

Celia Correas Zapata is Professor of Latin American literature at San Jose State University.

From Publishers Weekly:

Like a literary Oprah interview, this book provides a cozy, revealing look at the acclaimed Chilean author of The House of the Spirits and Daughter of Fortune. In chapters that alternate between biographical text and question-and-answer format, Zapata, a longtime friend of Allende, creates a portrait based on her subject's memories and bons mots on love, family and writing. And perhaps because the two women are old friends, Allende's comments fly loose and easy. On her relationship with editors, Allende says, "No one except my mother corrects my books." Asked to comment on her erotic experiences: "Erotica? I don't know, my memories all blend together." On why women use little humor in their writing, she says, "because we use ours up just surviving." And asked why she writes, Allende replies, "Because I am filled with stories that demand to be told, because the words are choking me, because I like and need to write, because if I don't write my soul dries up and I die." Of particular interest is Zapata's commentary on Allende's poor reception in her native country. The novelist may be popular on several continents, but in Chile, Zapata says, critics view her as "a Garc¡a M rquez epigone, simply a second rank writer." More personal profile than interpretive biography, this book is nonetheless full of meaty details that will interest Allende's fans and may be useful for libraries at schools offering courses on contemporary female or Latin American writers. B&w photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1558853634
• ISBN 13: 9781558853638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204