THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS- Isabel Allende

 Isabel Allende is one of the most promising contemporary Latin American woman novelists who were born in 1942 As a child, she travelled throughout Latin America and beyond. The novel is a history of Chile through the female ancestry in which many fundamentals in The House of the Spirits are based on Allende's own life. The political dealings in the anonymous country in the novel are rather similar to those that occurred in Chile where most of the characters in the novel are part of her own family. However the novel has no accurate association between it and any real events or characters. Isabel merges a luminous fabric of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both success and catastrophe. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild requirements and political machinations are raged only by his love for his outrageous wife, Clara, a woman touched by an inhuman hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has consider shameful infuriates her father, yet will generate his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, determined girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.

                                               The House of the Spirits is one of the great works in the magical realism movement well-known in post-colonial literature especially that of Latin America which link sexual, political, and economic oppression and establishes the national identity of Chile through its focus on the familial sphere. She accurately portrays the life of women living in a postcolonial world. Colonialism is a big part of American history, but the search for female identity is constant and still present today. She is a Chilean author who writes about women struggling in a Latin society, but she gives her character a voice. Here as well as in her other books, she illustrates strong female characters next to the traditional Latin American patriarchy. The women are the active, perceiving characters who confront traditional authoritarian power with their own marginalized power. It deals with very powerful questions of voice. The women in Allende’s novel attain power through intellect, relationships, magic, and namely ethics which highlights practical skills and imaginative understanding. The immorality of traditional authoritarian power is renowned through the men of the novel.  Critics of Allende and her work agree that she exploits patriarchy, but appreciate life’s struggle. The female characters in Isabel Allende’s La Casa de los Espiritus or The house of the spirts overcome revenge and cruelty. They reject to remain victims and are powerful as a part of the cycle of history. Allende, like her characters, is empowered through the writing and recording of her own history and the history of Chile and it's available and creative, relating the experiences of three generations of the Trueba clan amidst familial, social, and political chaos in an unnamed Latin American. It clearly elevates matter that fit outlines of research recognized by Third World and postcolonial critics, thus suggesting both a reliable language and a body of primary and secondary texts.