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...stylistic forbears through imitation. As has been noted by several reviewers, a few characters in The House of The Spirits bear more than passing resemblance to creations of Marquez. Rosa the Beautiful, the daughter of Senator del Valle who dies before her marriage to poor but proud Esteban Trueba, is a stand-in for Remedios Buendia of One Hundred Years of Solitude. And Allende's description of the huge Trueba mansion in decay reads like a passage from The Autumn of the Patriarch...
Allende is not just an epigone of Garcia Marquez. Writing in the tradition of Latin America's magic realists, she has a singular talent for producing full- scale representational portraits with comic surreal touches. Her rendering of the Trueba patriarch Esteban and his wife Clara is a hilarious display of mismatching. While the crude, commonsensical Esteban is doomed by nature to cause constant offense to his wife, Clara the Clairvoyant irritates her spouse by her perpetual whispered concourse with the spirits...
...Esteban's efforts to please Clara prove disastrous. After their wedding he can think of nothing better to present to his bride than the hide of her beloved dead dog Barrabas, turned into a rug and laid out at the foot of the marriage bed. "His two glass eyes stared up at her with the helpless look that is the specialty of taxidermists." Esteban's insensitiveness toward his wife extends beyond the grave. When Clara dies, the inconsolable widower begins wearing a suede pouch hanging under his shirt. "In it were his wife's false teeth, which he treated...
From the highway, the people point to the hills where the guerrillas have their hiding places. At dawn one day earlier this month, some 200 guerrillas occupied the village of San Esteban Catarina, in San Vicente, about 25 miles from the capital. When I arrived there, prayers were being offered in the church for the return of 70 youths-between 13 and 21 years of age-who were carried off by the guerrillas. The local priest, Father René Valle, and several mothers tried to stop the guerrillas from taking the boys. "Before, they had many supporters here, and they...
...fact that 200 guerrillas occupied San Esteban Catarina for four hours without encountering any trouble gives an idea of the insurgents' operational power. Barely five minutes away, in San Lorenzo, there is a military barracks where they were not aware or did not choose to be aware of what was happening. When I arrived in San Lorenzo, I was impressed by the youth of the soldiers. Some, really just children, were playing beneath the luxuriant ceiba tree that shades the main square. "In theory the recruits are not younger than 16," says General Vides Casanova. "But in practice there...