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 AmericaAuthor: Maria Luisa Bombal
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/16/2008
Series: FSG Classics
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780374531362
Language: English
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