Isabel Allende revela que "La casa de los espíritus" pudo no existir y cómo la rescató

The House of the Spirits might never have existed. Before any editor even read it, it was a massive tome of paper that Isabel Allende carried around in a canvas bag slung over her shoulder, never letting it out of her sight. Like a baby she had to take care of. But one day, she misplaced it. Desperate, thinking of all the work that had gone into it, she began searching for it until she remembered she had gone to the hairdresser's in Caracas, where she lived. “When I was finally able to go and get it, they had thrown it in the trash, and I had to go into the garbage dump on the street to get it out. There it was, untouched, mocking me,” she said, returning home with a profound sense of relief. That anecdote is part of the life of Isabel Allende Llona (83), but also of her career as a writer. And after a long career publishing, which has made her the most widely read Spanish-language author in the world, she decided to do something she had never done before: write a book offering advice on writing. A glimpse into her "literary kitchen," revealing to readers worldwide her process for bringing her novels to life. A kind of literary workshop in book form. Like Stephen King in On Writing, or Mario Vargas Llosa in The Vice of Writing, the author of Paula blended memoirs of her life with lessons on the craft of storytelling. Thus was born her new book, The Magic Word (Sudamericana). Follow us on our social media: X https://x.com/latercera IG   / laterceracom   FB   / laterceracom   WhatsApp https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va0i...