The Spirits' Book

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He is violent, selfish and earns very little sympathy from me over the course of the novel; that's not to say he isn't of interest, because he certainly is. That is not the only moment when suspicion rises that Alicia, Zafón’s most substantial and pivotal female character, is an attempt to balance an occasional strain of queasily antique machismo in his writing. Since the publication of “ The Spirits’ Book ”, Spiritism has grown into a global movement bridging science , philosophy , and religion into a new way of looking at life and the world around us – both visible and invisible. I felt like I was living through Allende's vivid descriptions of Chile's political history from the 1930s to the 1970s, the land, both in the city and in the country, and the homes and lives of her characters. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.

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They are part of the history, but they can not be told for the very censorship that this story speaks of. Chapter 3 (Vital Principle) is about the differences between animate and inanimate beings, between the living and the dead and the features of intelligence compared to instinct.This helps me trust my own palate instead of magazine reviews or tatted jackass mixologists with big belt-buckles and stupid haircuts that are only bartending because it pays the bills until they can find a job in finance. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Se dice que esta es la obra principal de Isabel Allende, y que no pierde ocasión para revisitar los personajes de esta novela en otras obras. It is an easy read, incredibly informative, and can make you an instant expert on all spirits, even includes barware and glasses. It will, however, be more than adequate for educating the working barman on the selections behind him.

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It drives me crazy how the author, out of the blue, tells you what can be expected somewhere down the road.I hate how we’re required to read books that not only talk about religion (like Christianity, which is really getting boring by now. On a final note, even though it couldn’t have been more than a few weeks, it seemed like I’d been reading this book for months, and those months just dragged on and on, especially since I had the old issue of the book where the pages were yellow and smelled like moth balls and some other unidentifiable thing. Similarly to our incarnation on the earth, this mission for them can be a way of advancing and purifying themselves. So they are told in novels and are thinly veiled as magical and exaggerated so as to hide behind such protection.

The Spirits’ Book - Allan Kardec

I love this authors work and this among many of her other books are for everyone who just enjoys a fabulous story. Una de las cosas más disfrutables de la novela, es ese contexto histórico, la transformación que sufre Chile a lo largo de todos estos años. Me ha sorprendido ver que la parte más mágica de este realismo mágico, llega un punto en la novela que prácticamente desaparece y se vuelve solo realista. The house itself is not the Trueba ranch in the country, Tres Marias, but their house in town that Trueba builds and then is knocked down by an earthquake and then is rebuilt again, and each time is slowly transformed by the Trueba women into a labyrinth, for various reasons - Clara responds to spirits, Alba is hiding political refugees, but it is always described as a labyrinth, which I imagine is a nod to Borges. However, it is only after a violent confrontation with Blanca’s lover, Pedro Tercero, that the relationship with Esteban breaks down and Clara leaves vowing to not speak with him again.

This subtext is made explicit in The Labyrinth of the Spirits when a librarian directs Alicia to a text that was doubly suppressed: “Be careful because this is a censored book, not only by the government but also by the Holy Mother Church. Cherberus/Naberius appears with two other individual but sparsely detailed spirits (the first two over rhetoric and love, respectively, the last having no noted duties). Alicia’s crippling injury – a burned hip that will not heal – was suffered during the Italian air-raids on Barcelona in 1938. It was the first and remains the most important Spiritist book, because it addresses in first hand all questions developed subsequently by Allan Kardec.