Isabel Allende Has a Few Ideas on How to Bring Down the Patriarchy, and We Are Listening
31 Shares Feminism, like the ocean, is fluid, powerful, deep and encompasses the infinite complexity of life; it moves in waves, currents, tides and sometimes in storms. Like the ocean, feminism never stays quiet. Isabel Allende s definition of feminism is, as someone who has read any of her 26 books might expect, as rich and mesmerizing as it can get. The Chilean icon shares this and many other theories and experiences that led her to describe herself as a feminist since kindergarten in her just-released new memoir,
A biopic series about Chilean author Isabel Allende might sound like an easy sell to a U.S. audience. Her 24 books have sold over 74 million copies around the world. Allende’s long list of awards includes the U.S. Presidential Medal Of Freedom she received from President Obama in 2015. Hers is the kind of life story that could have come straight out of her own novels: a woman forced into exile during Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship achieves literary stardom and finds her life falling apart due to personal tragedy.
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What many fail to realize is that Allende’s status in Latin American literary circles has always been shaky. The region appears to be involved in one of those illicit love affairs that Allende describes so well: She is scorned and ridiculed in public, but apparently adored in secret someone has to be purchasing those books, after all. It’s a shadow that hangs over Allende’s career in such a way that
NEW YORK (AP) Isabel Allende is not only the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author but also a self-declared and outspoken feminist. So it is not surprising that her most recent book,.
NEW YORK - Isabel Allende is not only the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author but also a self-declared and outspoken feminist. So it is not.
Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series and love in pandemic
SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS, Associated Press
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1of5This combination photo shows the cover of The Soul of a Woman, left, and a portrait of author Isabel Allende. (Ballantine via AP left, and Lori Barra via AP)Lori Barra/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5This image released by HBO Max shows key art of Daniela Ramírez as Isabel Allende for the miniseries Isabel: The Intimate Story of Isabel Allende, premiering March 12. (HBO Max via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
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4of5This image released by HBO Max shows Daniela Ramírez as Isabel Allende in a scene from the miniseries Isabel: The Intimate Story of Isabel Allende, premiering March 12. (HBO Max via AP)APShow MoreShow Less