1. Magical Realism and Surrealism Isabel Allende and House of the Spirits

2. Allende’s grandfather who lived to be 100 and is the model for Esteban Trueba. “In January 8, 1981, I was living in Venezuela and I received a phone call that my beloved grandfather was dying. I began a letter for him that later became my first novel, The House of the Spirits.”

3. Clara the Clarivoyant  Allende’s grandmother died when she was young but whose spirit is with her always.  Isabel was a lonely girl. She would hide in the basement of her grandparents’ home in Santiago, Chile. In that dark and musty space, she played among the aged family photos and abandoned furniture. Among the cobwebs, the young Isabel read dust-covered books, through which she discovered the silken threads of fantastical stories, threads that would one day inform the novels of a legendary writer.

4. Allende Photos

6. Isabele Allende’s Works House of the Spirits (1982) Of Love and Shadows (1985) Eva Luna (1987) The Stories of Eva Luna (1989) The Infinite Plan (1991) Afrodite (1997) Daughter of Fortune (1999). Portrait in Sepia (2000) City of the Beasts (2002) My Invented Country (2003) Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004) Forest of the Pygmies (2005) Zorro: A Novel (2005) La Malinche (2006) House of the Spirits (1982) Of Love and Shadows (1985) Eva Luna (1987) The Stories of Eva Luna (1989) The Infinite Plan (1991) Afrodite (1997) Daughter of Fortune (1999). Portrait in Sepia (2000) City of the Beasts (2002) My Invented Country (2003) Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004) Forest of the Pygmies (2005) Zorro: A Novel (2005) La Malinche (2006)

7. Characteristics of Magical Realism  De-centering  Shifting points of view  Baroque  Mestizaje  Reaction against logical  Shocking  Pessimistic  De-centering  Shifting points of view  Baroque  Mestizaje  Reaction against logical  Shocking  Pessimistic  Nature powerful  Social justice  Not nostalgic  Ironies and contradictions  Fantastic is real  Probing of human consciousness  Ordinary magnified

8. Magical Realism  Magic realism--[is characterized by] the mingling and juxtaposition of the realistic and the fantastic, bizarre and skillful time shifts, convoluted and even labyrinthine narratives and plots, miscellaneous use of dreams, myths and fairy stories, expressionistic and even surrealistic description, arcane erudition, the elements of surprise or abrupt shock, the horrific and the inexplicable. (A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory)  Lo real maravilloso--for the practice of Latin American writers who mix everyday realities with imaginative extravaganzas drawn from the rich interplay of European and native cultures.[Writers] enlarge a reader's ordinary sense of the real to include magic, myth, hallucination and miracles. (Handbook to Literature, Harper ed.)  Magic realism--the capacity to enrich our idea of what is 'real' by incorporating all dimensions of the imagination, particularly as expressed in magic, myth and religion. (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia)  Magic realism--[is characterized by] the mingling and juxtaposition of the realistic and the fantastic, bizarre and skillful time shifts, convoluted and even labyrinthine narratives and plots, miscellaneous use of dreams, myths and fairy stories, expressionistic and even surrealistic description, arcane erudition, the elements of surprise or abrupt shock, the horrific and the inexplicable. (A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory)  Lo real maravilloso--for the practice of Latin American writers who mix everyday realities with imaginative extravaganzas drawn from the rich interplay of European and native cultures.[Writers] enlarge a reader's ordinary sense of the real to include magic, myth, hallucination and miracles. (Handbook to Literature, Harper ed.)  Magic realism--the capacity to enrich our idea of what is 'real' by incorporating all dimensions of the imagination, particularly as expressed in magic, myth and religion. (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia)

9. Rooted in Surrealism Influenced by: Salvador Dali “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” Influenced by: Salvador Dali “Metamorphosis of Narcissus”

10. Characteristics of Surrealism  Natural laws reversed  Light is ominous  Scale of change  Double images  Objects transformed  Dissolving forms  Levitation  Metamorphosis  Dislocation of objects to new places  Use of double images  Light is ominous  Natural laws reversed  Light is ominous  Scale of change  Double images  Objects transformed  Dissolving forms  Levitation  Metamorphosis  Dislocation of objects to new places  Use of double images  Light is ominous

11. Autumnal Cannibalism (Dali)

12. “Persistence of Memory”

13. Frieda Kahlo

21. Magritte Castle of the Pyrenees

22. Personal Values

23. Christ on the Cross Dali

24. Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish Dali

25. Cinquenta..tigre Real Dali

26. Sleep Dali

27. Carnival of Harlequin Joan Miro

28. Animal Composition Joan Miro

29. Dragonfly With Red Wings Joan Miro

30.  [Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor, 1893-1983] The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me. - Joan Miró, 1958, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art