House of the Spirits | Social Concerns
Until the publication of Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, few female writers had emerged from the "Boom" of Latin American literature that began in the 1960s. When the translation of La casa de los espiritus appeared in 1985, however, Allende received the kind of international attention that had previously been reserved for writers such as Colombian Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In fact, The House of the Spirits has frequently been compared with Garcia Marquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude because of Allende's mixture of...
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