![]() ![]() Svich’s award-winning adaptation of the novel will be performed at the Cervantes Theatre throughout November, with performances in Spanish on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and some Saturdays at 7.30pm and performances in English on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30pm. “ I realized Caridad had captured the spirit of the book, the story of a country reflected through a family… I love that” said Allende about Svich’s theatrical adaptation, which received the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize. When the novel first appeared on the international literary scene, it was heralded as a feminist response to Gabriel García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.Īllende’s novel was adapted into a film in 1993 and later received a theatrical adaptation by Caridad Svich. La Casa de los Espíritus follows the life of the Trueba family, spanning four generations, and tracing the post-colonial social and political upheavals of Chile – although the country’s name is never explicitly given. ![]() The novel was critically acclaimed, earning Best Novel of the Year in Chile, and it catapulted Allende to literary stardom. After being rejected by several Spanish-language publishers, it was finally published in Buenos Aires in 1982 and became an instant bestseller. La Casa de los Espíritus (in English, The House of the Spirits) was the first novel ever written by Isabel Allende. ![]()
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