‘The House of the Spirits’ by Isabel Allende
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5 min readMay 12, 2021
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Literary Insights of ‘The House of the Spirits’
A Novel of One Family in Three Generations
‘The House of the Spirits’, published in 1982, outsets humble beginning of a Latin American family’s stories.
Enumerating a Latin American family’s upheavals for four generations, author Isabel Allende endeavors to churn out the scenarios of a country’s class struggle; tricky politics; coups; impacts of foreign land’s conflict in domestic politics; and survival of women in oppressive patriarchal society.
A salient feature of the novel is that it tries to enumerate Latin American cliche and culture- encompassing from the family’s perspective to political practice, foreign affairs and feminist…
