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she was herselt a public tigure and open to attack. Judith Miller is Associate Professor of English at She believes that she was ignored because the miliâ€" _ Renison College at University of Waterloo. o 0o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0o 0o 0o 0o o o 0o 0o o o o o o 0o o o o o o e The military takeover from her uncle, Salvador Allende, was a great shock to Isabel Allende. A television personality and a newspaper columnist, she was herself a public figure and open to attack. She believes that she was ignored because the miliâ€" Allende reflects that living in Venezuela allowed her to live more openly, to acknowledge her unorthodox attitudes to almost everything, her senâ€" suality, and her gift for writing. Somewhere along the way, Paula becomes a memoir, with Allende reflecting on her life and the vivid people of her family, setting down stories and events, people she wants Paula to hear about, but also sorting out the complexities of her own life. That life began in Chile, and Allende says she will never get over being a Chilean, concerned about respectability. appearances and social conâ€" ventions of the strictest kind, However, having moved to Venezuela after the right wing military takeover in Chile, she has had a chance to temper that upbringing Interestingly, this letter she is writing to Paula becomes a book, just as a letter she was writing to her grandfather before his death became 500 pages long and she announced timidly to her famâ€" ity that she thought she had written a bookâ€"which they cullectively named The House of Spirits. The writing is as rich and luscious as any of the language in any of the novels, but there is a defiâ€" nite difference. This writing is not shaped and formed for the reader. It is written for the writer. Sentences wander from topic to topic, following a streamâ€"ofâ€"consciousness logic: Since you fell ill I have no strength for anything but you, Paula. You have been sleeping for a month now. | don‘t know how to reach you; I call and call but your name is lost in the nooks and crannies of this hospital. My soul is choking in sand. Sadness is a sterile desert. ... I plunge into these pages in an irrational attempt to overâ€" come my terror. Allende hopes that "the meticulous exercise of writing can be our salvation." In the process of writing, she hopes to give form to the devastation which is crowding in on her. She says she can not think about the book she had planned to write. PAGE 18 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1995 This work is nonâ€"fiction. It is a kind of journal which Allende wrote for herself while her daughâ€" ter, Paula, was lying in hospital in a deep coma. â€" Allende began writing to create a record for Paula of a time which she would otherwise not know about, so that there would not be a hole in her life when she came out of the coma. Isabel Allende‘s novels are rich and extravagant, Latin American "magic realism." Her newest book, Paula, is something different. h The meticulous exercise of writing NATURAL [ fl,q,w"ggti MEET THE _ IFACTORY REPRESENTATIVE CASH ano CARRY SALE Cash Discounts On Everything i. Aug. 25 10am â€" 8pm & Sat. Aug. 26 10am â€" 5:30pm ONLY EAanuunm® f~ SOUND |~ 645 VICTORIA ST. N. KITCHENER 744â€"3111 wg In the face of her daughter‘s iliness, Allende struggles to resolve her own values, to come to terms with the idea that she may be holding in this world a spirit which has been making its way out to somewhere else. Allende lives wholly, without artificial barriers between one world and another. it is a world view 1 recognize from my childhood in Quebec, where religious statues spoke to believers and miracles happened at shrines. Readers were often surprised in the novels by the easy movemnent from the everyday into the magical or spiritual and back again. This book moves in and out of the same worlds, comfortable with the idea of conversations with her dead grandmother, her grandmother‘s psychic predictions, her daughâ€" ter‘s appearances to her in dreams, and her own dreams about childrenâ€"aboutâ€"toâ€"beâ€"born. Through the events of her past life weave the moment to moment difficulties of caring for her daughter and the awful notâ€"knowing. The counterâ€" point creates urgency. The man she met at a lecture is the man she lives with and is married to, in California. When she suggested that he marry her, he mumbled that he would have to think about it. Characteristically, she gave him 24 hours to think about it. He decided to marry her. Allende talks about her love affairs, many of them naive and inappropriate. Nevertheless, she has no regrets. She has lived all her life with the energy and zest which give her wrilinf1 vitality. She celebrates the loving relationship which she fell into late in life. 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