the house of the spirits

伊莎贝尔·阿连德（Isabel Allende，1942－）,她出身智利的名门世家，萨尔瓦多·阿连德总统是她的伯父。她在一个奇妙的大家庭长大，外祖母为她打开了探索神秘世界的心灵之门。 1973年，智利发生流血政变事件，她踏上流亡之路。 1981年，99岁的外祖父决定绝食自杀，她写给他一封长信，这就是《幽灵之家》。 1992年，29岁的爱女因病去世。她用文字让自己变得更坚强。

出版者:Black Swan

作者:Isabel Allende

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isbn号码:9780552991988

图书标签:拉丁美文学外国文学magic-realism小说

Magic realism, at its best, should appear extrtaordinary, yet somehow believable. Allende's portrayal of the interesting lives of certain members of her family, is so convincing, that their connection with the other world is almost treated like a debilitating defect, a characterisitic that the family accept, yet at the same time is a little ashamed of. The playing down of such traits (if true, and of this I am still unsure) makes the logically impossible appear real. The story centre's on the lives of three generations of Truebas. At it's heart the book attempts to show, that peoples paths are predetermined and any desire to change what is preordained is both futile and destructive. Trueba is a man against the world. He is a self made man, who believes in order. The book insinuates that being a self made man, he is more concerned about others' perception of his family, than of his family's wellbeing, however, one gets the distinct impression throughout that Trueba believes that what he is doing is right. Battles are fought on every front, and ultimately, he fails in all of these, bar the financial struggle, the vanquishing of which he achieves in his youth. The life of the family is set against the political developments in the unnamed country, which we all assume to be Chile and in particular two different takes on the onset of socialism. Trueba, beleives that his form of conservative pragmatism is to be maintained, whilst almost all members of his family become aware of the social injustice that is preserved through the maintenance of the status quo. This conflict is only reconciled at the end of the book. It is an enlightening and ultimately comforting read, that convincingly illuminates the destructive force that radical ideology can have on a family.

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我第一次读这书的时候，觉得很震撼，所以没写下来什么。过了几日，方觉得有些东西想记下来，因为它们在感觉中凸显了出来。 我很喜欢明姑娘克拉腊，这姑娘完全沉浸在自己的幽灵世界里，与其他几个女巫，许多的朋友一起整日围着三脚桌研究巫术，当然，她自己就是个女巫...

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Beautiful novel! House of cards, three for yes four for no.... I bet thom have read this.