Second, ''The House of the Spirits'' seems guilty of that extravagant and whimsical fabulousness so dear to the imagination of many South and Central American fictionalists. The reader may not be exactly sympathetic to the present ruling junta either, but he doesn't need a novel to lecture him about political repression. Moreover, it is obviously going to tell Chile's story from a point of view not exactly sympathetic to the present ruling junta. Set in an unnamed South American country, it is obviously going to tell the story of Chile's peaceful socialist revolution and violent militaristic counterrevolution -the author being a Chilean now living in Caracas, and, not incidentally, the niece of former President Salvador Allende Gossens. WITHIN a couple of dozen pages, Isabel Allende's extraordinary first novel, ''The House of the Spirits,'' found several ways to antagonize this reader.įirst, it seems to be an openly ideological novel. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin.
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