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| Original Title: | Paula |
| ISBN: | 849759388X (ISBN13: 9788497593885) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
Isabel Allende
Pasta blanda | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.12 | 30079 Users | 1996 Reviews
Describe Out Of Books Paula
| Title | : | Paula |
| Author | : | Isabel Allende |
| Book Format | : | Pasta blanda |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 2004 by Nuevas Ediciones de Bolsillo (first published October 1994) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Biography Memoir. Magical Realism |
Commentary In Favor Of Books Paula
Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más Ãntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que agonizaba su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de sà misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara el dramático trance. El resultado se convirtió en un autorretrato de insólita emotividad y en una exquisita recreación de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra época.Rating Out Of Books Paula
Ratings: 4.12 From 30079 Users | 1996 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books Paula
Isabel Allende has long been my favorite author since I read her House of the Spirits for the first time nearly twenty years ago. Since then, I have reread her opus three times, as well as a number of her novels and memoir The Sum of Our Days. Until now, however, I had been avoiding her first memoir Paula, which details the year and a half of her life where she dealt with her daughter's long illness that eventually lead to her death. Needing a book from the 1990s for my women's 20th centuryPaula by Isabel Allende is an autobiographical account of her family's experiences in Chile, writing feverishly at the bedside of her daughter, Paula, as she lay in a coma from a genetic neurological disease in Barcelona, Spain. At first it was written for Paula so that she will not be lost or afraid when she awoke; then as it became clearer that this wouldn't happen, Allende continued to write as a cathartic of the time her family was driven from their home in Chile following the military coup
Several years ago I read Isabel Allende's fiction and remembered liking it, so enroute to the library checkout I grabbed her nonfiction book, "Paula," on impulse. I have mixed feelings about it. It is a definite page-turner, alternating between the true story of Allende's daughter Paula and her terrible health condition, and the flashbacks of Allende's own very eventful life. Allende wrote the personal history as a way of telling Paula her story and staying sane during the health ordeal. She is
It is an autobiography written during the watching over her dying daughter. But the book is not that gloomy due to the talented combination of dramatic moments, humour and wisdom. The writer tries to find out the sense of this suffering. The power of this book is probably created by the archetype that underlies it, rendered in the classical myth of goddess Demeter descending to the Underwold in search of her daughter Persephone. The book is thus structured on 2 story lines: Isabel Allende's
Isabel Allendes novel Paula recounts the death of her daughter in 1992. Her daughter Paula had encountered the disorder Porphyria that affects the nervous system. In her case, through a variety of factors, she ended up in a coma, and after much intervention, she passed away at age 29. In short, this was not a pleasant read on the surface.Twisting the tale, Allende retells her own life story to her coma-induced daughter Paula while intermingling updates along the way. The book acts on many levels
What's more difficult to see our daughter die? The wild hope of healing then along accompaniment to the end?"Paula" starts with a letter from Isabel Allende to his sick daughter. She tells him the story of his family, a saga full of legend and imagination, but the narration of the past was interrupted by the events of the present, the deteriorating health of Paula, disarray, treatments and superstitions try to overcome evil and even the intense moments where you wonder if it would not be better
I really enjoyed the first part of this book, as it gives a great insight into Isabel Allende and her childhood and her family life in Chile which I found so interesting, This books is really about Allende's daughter Paula and her illness which I feel was very badly explained, I had to google Paula's condition to understand it as it was not very clear from the book. I also felt that Paul's life was discussed very little and I would have like to have learned more about Paula as a person. This is
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