House of Mist
Author | : María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780374531362 |
ISBN-13 | : 0374531366 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner—and the mysteries surrounding their life together—in a house deep in the lush Chilean woods, Penelope Mesic wrote in the Chicago Tribune that Bombal showed "bold disregard for simple realism in favor of a heightened reality in which the external world reflects the internal truth of the characters' feeling . . . mingling . . . fantasy, memory and event." "One of the most outstanding representations of the avant-garde in Latin America." -Women Writers of Spanish America