Title: Paula Author: Isabel Allende
Pages: 326
Publisher: Feltrinelli
Price: € 8 Plot: Paula, born October 22, 1963, is a happy girl, love her husband's passionate about his work . His is a simple life, which has nothing to do with that of his mother Isabel. Two women, two different fates. Suddenly, twenty-eight years, Paula falls ill with a serious disease, porphyria, which pulls in a coma from which there is no return. Isabel rushes to her bedside to try to keep her alive, or perhaps to carry her gently towards the end ... through the magic of writing the mother-writer seeks to "distract the death", trying to find meaning in such a senseless tragedy evokes the exuberant and his bizarre family circle because Paula, and sueprare help without getting lost, the border of life. An autobiography, an exemplary story of pain and hope, an extraordinary confession on the genesis of his work, his travels, loves: Isabel Allende, stirring the rice with honesty and humanity to tears, said goodbye to Paula as a woman as in welcome to give it "spirit." Because there is no definitive separation until there is a memory.
What do you think:
Paula is an autobiographical story. Paula is a girl who really lived. The suffering told in the novel is not a skilled writer of fantasy, but it is the cry of pain of a mother who has to say goodbye to her daughter. The story begins Dec. 6, 1991, the day that Paula is hospitalized due to a genetic disease porphyria (we were with the father and brother). In this book recounts the now-famous Chilean writer his troubled life, beginning to narrate the genesis of his family to get to tell of the violence suffered when he was only a child of 8 years, his insecurity, his adulterous love affairs often led it to abandon the family and children , until the terrible coup in 1973 that devastated his life and deprived of the bond which still united the family of the father, Salvador Allende.
The purpose of the book, in the original design of the Allende, had a twofold objective: first, to be able to escape, if only for a few hours of pain and suffering that afflict to see his daughter in a coma in a hospital bed, and second, he thought, or rather hoped, that this paper would help her remember Paula in every event of his family, why do not you just woke up she was not feeling lost. Gradually, the clinical picture became more clear and black, the story changed. The mother did not tell the story more to his daughter, but to his readers, no longer spoke face to face with Paula, but about the life reference her in the third person. And the reader understands that there was no hope for Paula, but does not abandon the book. Because as a loyal friend does not abandon the other when most needed, so the reader accompanies the Allende in his farewell to his beloved daughter. This affection is evidenced by the thousands of letters received by the Chilean emotion immediately after the publication of the autobiography. She herself has selected some of the publications in a second volume, entitled "For Paula. Letters from the world." Along with Isabel, in this last trip to Paula, there are other people: her grandmother's second husband, Willie, and the Isabel's first husband, and father of Paula, Michael and his son and brother Nicholas and in-law Celia, which during the disease gave birth to her second, in the same room where, a few months later, Paula would have said goodbye to the mundane world. Of all the figures in the months that accompanied the suffering of the writer there is one that struck me more: Ernesto, the husband of Paula. Their marriage lasted a little over a year before the disease distrugesse Paula. Her grief is overwhelming, I could not cry while reading his words, his dismay and his do not comprehend an injustice so great. One sentence struck me most of all got me thinking: "It will be that we loved so much, that Paula and I have voraciously consumed all the happiness that we had right? What we devoured life ?(...)". A man who loves his wife most of her life and be offended at the counsel of his mother-in-law to go out with other women and rebuild a new life. I felt a serious vice stomach while Allende narrates the last hours of Paula. And after the last words I could finally let go a cry liberating "Adios, Paula, mujer. Bienvenida, Paula, espiritu. " was December 6, 1992.
My vote is definitely 5 stars.
The purpose of the book, in the original design of the Allende, had a twofold objective: first, to be able to escape, if only for a few hours of pain and suffering that afflict to see his daughter in a coma in a hospital bed, and second, he thought, or rather hoped, that this paper would help her remember Paula in every event of his family, why do not you just woke up she was not feeling lost. Gradually, the clinical picture became more clear and black, the story changed. The mother did not tell the story more to his daughter, but to his readers, no longer spoke face to face with Paula, but about the life reference her in the third person. And the reader understands that there was no hope for Paula, but does not abandon the book. Because as a loyal friend does not abandon the other when most needed, so the reader accompanies the Allende in his farewell to his beloved daughter. This affection is evidenced by the thousands of letters received by the Chilean emotion immediately after the publication of the autobiography. She herself has selected some of the publications in a second volume, entitled "For Paula. Letters from the world." Along with Isabel, in this last trip to Paula, there are other people: her grandmother's second husband, Willie, and the Isabel's first husband, and father of Paula, Michael and his son and brother Nicholas and in-law Celia, which during the disease gave birth to her second, in the same room where, a few months later, Paula would have said goodbye to the mundane world. Of all the figures in the months that accompanied the suffering of the writer there is one that struck me more: Ernesto, the husband of Paula. Their marriage lasted a little over a year before the disease distrugesse Paula. Her grief is overwhelming, I could not cry while reading his words, his dismay and his do not comprehend an injustice so great. One sentence struck me most of all got me thinking: "It will be that we loved so much, that Paula and I have voraciously consumed all the happiness that we had right? What we devoured life ?(...)". A man who loves his wife most of her life and be offended at the counsel of his mother-in-law to go out with other women and rebuild a new life. I felt a serious vice stomach while Allende narrates the last hours of Paula. And after the last words I could finally let go a cry liberating "Adios, Paula, mujer. Bienvenida, Paula, espiritu. " was December 6, 1992.
My vote is definitely 5 stars.
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Title: To Paula. Letters from the world.
Author: Isabel Allende
Pages: 91
Publisher: Feltrinelli
Price: € 6
Plot: The story told by Isabel Allende in "Paula" have attracted attention that has been well beyond the boundaries of print and publishing success. From the book on Isabel Allende began to receive letters, in ways and forms, testified to a profound participation in a special intensive reading. Feltrinelli, as he did Suhrkamp in Germany, will publish a selection: from all over the world and, mostly, who writes has a similar tragedy to tell, small incidents of daily suffering to communicate, a break from shyness.
Sincerely, Isy
Sincerely, Isy
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