![]() Hence, here is my personal account of the book that is deemed the pinnacle of her literary career.Īt the time of its publishing, in 1982, Isabel Allende was entering her forties, a fact that startled me at first. In my last publishing, I wrote about the life and work of Chilean-American author Isabel Allende ( ), and by the end of it I mentioned that the subject of my next review would be “La Casa de Los Espiritus” (The House of Spirits), her very first novel. ![]() ![]() “Escribo, ella escribió, que la memoria es frágil y el transcurso de una vida es muy breve y sucede todo tan deprisa, que no alcanzamos a ver la relación entre los acontecimientos, no podemos medir la consecuencia de los actos, creemos en la ficción del tiempo, en el presente, el pasado y el futuro, pero puede ser también que todo ocurre simultáneamente (…)” ( I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events, we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously (…)) ![]()
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