Author: Isabel Allende
Plot:
A family saga of our century which reflect the history and fate of an entire people, the Chilean women in the stories of a great and eccentric family. A large fresco charm and emotion may remind the reader, in the South American fiction, only "One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez.
Here's my review :
All sides of being a woman
It 's the first book I read Isabel Allende and found it beautiful.
nell'autrice I found a remarkable ability to portray people. With her describe so gamble "loving", easily able to arouse in the reader's love for them consequential. You end up appreciating all the extravagance and eccentricity.
certainly important is the role played by women in history, which is appreciated the irrational side, magical ... The so-called "feminine intuition" that rises to special beings, gifted with abilities even contradictory. The heroines Allende figures known to be elegant, calm, peaceful, but also stubborn, determined warrior.
One of the portraits that I especially liked is that of Ferula Trueba.
Clara, the female protagonist, is a figure almost evanescent ... Beloved by all but impossible to conquer, from "hold." Even the reader remains enthralled by her unique personality and, as happens to the characters of the book loved it, even the reader is not nothing but a sense of elusiveness to him.
I repeat, this book is beautiful and not only because it calls for love and forgiveness (demonstrates the folly of revenge), but also because it treats people not only made of body and mind, but also much more. "Death is like being born, only a transformation, not the end.
Recommended! :)
About the film ...
Episode The House of the Spirits
Country Portugal / Germany / Denmark / USA
Year 1993 Directed by Bille August Cast and characters
Meryl Streep: Clara del Valle Trueba
Glenn Close: Jeremy Irons Ferula Trueba
: Esteban Trueba
Winona Ryder: Blanca Trueba
Antonio Banderas: Pedro Tercero García
Vanessa Redgrave: Nivea del Valle
Maria Conchita Alonso: Tránsito Soto
Armin Mueller-Stahl: Severo del Valle
Jan Niklas: Count Jean Satigny
My comment :
The film has the advantage of capturing the spirit of the book and the characters, especially the one-of-Esteban and Ferula Trueba, but for those who read the book, the film appears to be empty, a succession of flash if you do not have 'the magic that has won every Isabel Allende single event described (but that's normal ...).
Also in the film lacks the narrative of the life of Dawn, granddaughter of Esteban and everything that happens in the book, the film is attached to the mother's life, Blanca. Jaime and Nicolas even exist. The choice is obviously forced ... the one who wrote the script had to stage only the characters relevant to the fulfillment of the plot and skip a generation so that the film does not last a thousand hours, so it's already come a film of 2 and a half hours.
Apart from anything else, for what I said initially, I also suggest the film!
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