Magical Realism
D.A.N. Jones, 1 August 1985
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin.
Cape, 368 pp., £8.95, July 1985,0 224 02231 8 Show More
by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin.
Cape, 368 pp., £8.95, July 1985,
Careful with the Sharks
by Constantine Phipps.
Cape, 216 pp., £8.95, May 1985,9780224023085 Show More
by Constantine Phipps.
Cape, 216 pp., £8.95, May 1985,
“... It is obvious that Isabel Allende’s novel about Chile, The House of the Spirits, has something about it that appeals to women readers: but I cannot imagine what that something is. ‘Magical realism’ is the vogue-word: but this seems to me a farrago of fantasy-triggers. I was astonished when Marina Warner asserted on television that the book ‘gives you an astonishing understanding of a political situation ... ”
