basicsopf.blogg.se - Allende in the midst of winter

The theme of displacement is very natural for me.

On her novel The House of Spirits in “The undefeated” in The Guardian (2017 Apr 28).

And I think I needed to lose my country to start writing, because The House of the Spirits is an attempt to recreate the country I had lost, the family I had lost. I had to support a family, I wasn't ready.

It would have been much better if I had started at 19.

On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28).Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.On her mother’s upbringing in “The undefeated” in The Guardian (2017 Apr 28).As a child I felt impotent and guilty because I felt that I couldn't help her in any way. The only way she could get attention from her father or anybody else was by being sick. Because she lived under the big umbrella of my grandfather and she didn't have any education - she had three kids, had been abandoned by her husband, had no money - it was a horrible life.Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer.