The heart of woman
August 2, 1942 Isabel Allende was born on 2 August 1942 day in Lima (Peru). The family is at this time in Lima, Peru, for business reasons. His mother, Francisca Llona Barros, divorced from their father, Tomás Allende, when the writer has only three years: Isabel will never know his father, who after the dissolution of marriage will vanish into thin air. Alone with three children and no job experience, the mother moved to Santiago de Chile, housed in the casa del nonno (recalled later in "the House of the spirits" in that of Esteban Trueba). With the help of his uncle Salvador Allende and through his influence, you won't miss her and her brothers scholarships, clothing and entertainment. Lively and restless child, during childhood spent at the grandparents House learns to read and feed their imagination with readings taken from his grandfather's library, but also with books that she says she found in a trunk inherited from his father, containing collections of Jules Verne or Emilio Salgari. The imagination of small feeds also of romance novels, listened to the radio in the kitchen along with the orderlies and especially of spooky Tales from Grandpa or Grandma, the latter characterized by a propensity towards the mysteries of spiritualism. These whimsical and wonderful years break in 1956, when the mother marries another diplomat. Given the particular nature of the profession, the diplomatic note, the couple began to travel and stays in various countries. The experiences in Bolivia, Europe and Lebanon will reveal the little dreamer a different world than the one in which she grew up. Isabel Allende will live on your skin the first experiences of sexism. Although the readings are changing: law books of philosophy, Freud and the tragedies of Shakespeare knows. Poking into his stepfather's room, he finds a "forbidden book" that will be his major literary influences: hidden in a closet reads "the thousand and one nights". At the age of 15 years, desirous of independence, he returned to Santiago and at 17 he began working as a Secretary at the "information Department", an Office of FAO. In 19 years with Miguel Frías (1962), with whom she had two sons: Nicholás and Paula. At this time leads to the world of journalism who along with his formative theatrical experience better. First enters the television, conducting a fifteen-minute program on the tragedy of hunger in the world; then he writes for the women's magazine Paula (1967-1974) and the children's magazine Mampato (1969-1974). Television Channel 7 from 1970 to 1974 in commits. Isabel Allende won fame in the 1960s, thanks to the heading "Los impertinentes" that her friend Delia Vergara the reserve inside the magazine Paula. Since then she has never ceased to decant the journalism as large school of writing and humility. The September 11, 1973 military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet ends another phase of life of Allende. The evolution of facts obliges it to enter for the first time actively in the political life of his country: the writer undertakes on behalf of persecuted by the regime by finding them political asylum, safe havens and by the country's news filter. The dictatorial regime allows it to work even with national television, but soon decides to quit his job, because he realizes that the military Government is using it. Then decides to emigrate and, followed briefly by her husband and children, stops for thirteen years in Venezuela, where he writes for various newspapers. In fact autoesiliatasi, begins to write to vent their anger and grief. Thus was born the first novel, rejected by all Latin American Publishers by being signed by a name not only unknown, but even female. In the fall of 1982 "the House of the spirits", a family Chronicle in the background of political and economic change in Latin America is published in Barcelona by Plaza y Janés. The success blazes initially in Europe and from there passes in the United States: the many translations in different languages make known the writer in many parts of the world. From then on, inanellerà a success after another, starting with "of love and shadows" until Paula, passing for "Eva Luna". In 45 years Isabel Allende divorced by her husband and in 1988 he married secondly with William Gordon who knows when traveling to San José, in the United States. The story of the life of the new partner of writer inspires a new novel that was published in 1991 under the title "The infinite plane." Many critics have referred to the work of Isabel Allende as a collage of ideas and situations drawn from his colleagues. But one of the most persistent criticism is that of constant comparison with Gabriel García Márquez and, indeed, some influence Colombian writer is undeniable, since it is still considered a landmark for the new generation of Latin American writers. You cannot however fail to mention that the book-confession "Paula" is an account of the tragedy that struck the Allende. Paula, in fact, is none other than the daughter of the writer, died on 6 December 1992 of a rare and incurable disease after spending a long time comatose.