![]() The text grew like a gigantic organism with many tentacles and by the end of the year I had 500 pages on the kitchen counter. ![]() I wrote every night, oblivious to the fact that my grandfather had died. The following evening after dinner, again I locked myself in the kitchen to write. What were you doing? my husband mumbled.Īnd indeed, magic it was. Who was Barrabas, why did he come by sea? I didn't have the foggiest idea, but I continued writing like a maniac until dawn, when exhaustion defeated me and I crawled to my bed. ![]() ![]() I wrote the first sentence in trance: Barrabas came to us by sea. Upon learning that her 99-year-old grandfather was on his deathbed in Chile and unable to return to his side because of her status as a political exile, Allende began writing him what she has called "a spiritual letter." According to Allende, she entered a trance while writing and let her imagination consume her: ![]() After spending many years as a journalist, television, and theater writer in Chile and Venezuela, Allende fell into sync with the intelligent, mystical style of fiction writing that would ultimately guide her career. The House of the Spirits ( La Casa de los Espíritus) marked Isabel Allende's novelistic debut and the advent of her status as an internationally best-selling author. ![]()
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