#ferula trueba

[mariaaxescallop]

Isabel Allende, La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits)

#la casa de los espíritus #the house of the spirits #isabel allende #ferula trueba #this is one of the best character descriptions i have ever read #such a tragic character

[spryfilm]

Blu-ray review: “The House of the Spirits” (1993)

“The House of the Spirits” (1993) Drama Running Time: 97 minutes Written by: Bille August based on the novel by Isabel Allende Directed by: Bille August Featuring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Armin Mueller-Stahl, María Conchita Alonso, Vanessa Redgrave and Joaquín Martínez Esteban Trueba: [to Ferula] “Sometimes I wish Mother was here so I could…

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#Antonio Banderas #Armin Mueller-Stahl #Bille August #bluray #bluray review #Glenn Close #jeremy irons #Joaquín Martínez #María Conchita Alonso #Meryl streep #The House of the Spirits #The House of the Spirits bluray #Vanessa Redgrave #winona ryder

[d0cthunder]

“For the first time she could remember, Férula felt happy.She was closer to Clara than she had ever been to anyone...”

“I can’t sleep at night.I feel as if I’m choking.I get up and walk around the garden and then I walk inside the house. I go to my sister-in-law’s room and put my ear to her door.Sometimes I tip toe in and watch her while she sleeps.She looks like an Angel.I want to climb into bed with her and feel the warmth of her skin and her gentle breathing.”

“In midmorning she personally served her breakfast in bed, threw open the blue silk curtains to let the sun in, and filled the french porcelain bathtub...”

“Then Férula drew her out of bed with a mother’s gentle caresses, telling her the good news from the morning paper...Férula took her strolling in the sun...shopping...for lunch at the golf club...to see her parents...and to the theater...”

#Ferula Trueba #is a lesbian #La Casa de los Espiritus #isabel allende #you can’t convince me otherwise #I won’t accept it

[hattersarts]

this is it right? this is peak niche? 

#the house of the spirits #glenn close #Meryl Streep #Clara del Valle #ferula trueba

[sassmill]

I’m watching The House of the Spirits again and I got some things to say. 

First of all this imagery? Got me shook. I’m sure I made a post about it the last time I watched this too, but the visual of Clara in her white wedding dress with Ferula in black mirrors Clara walking with Esteban in his suit. This one moment makes me question, which Trueba did Clara actually marry? When all is said and done with her relationships in this film (which I like to treat as a separate entity from Allende’s novel because as an adaptation this movie’s a fair bit off, although this point applies to the novel as well), it’s more or less like she married both of them. 

Anyway, Ferula is gay as hell and cried the first time Clara touched her and if being touch starved ain’t gay culture I don’t know what is.

Separate thought- even though Ferula isn’t portrayed as at all predatory in her devotion to Clara (film or novel), as a character type she reminds me a little bit of Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca? The line is drawn where devotion blurs into obsession but I feel like I’m not reaching too far in seeing some similarities. It could also be 95% her outfit. I don’t know.

#analysis #mine #the house of the spirits #isabel allende #glenn close #meryl streep #clara del valle #clara trueba #ferula trueba #esteban trueba #movies #rebecca #rebecca (1939) #mrs. danvers

[horsesarecreatures]

Book review: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

This book was recommended to me by an Italian exchange student at my school whose name is coincidentally also Isabel, and I’m glad I read it because because I’ve heard of Isabel Allende so many times but just never got around to reading one of her books before. It’s a semi-autobiographical novel, but also historical fiction with elements of magical realism. It takes place in Chile, and starts by introducing two daughters of the liberal De Valle family, Rosa the Beautiful and Clara the Clairvoyant. Rosa is the older one who is engaged to a boy named Esteban Trueba. She only met him once, and he has been working at a mine for the past 2 years to save money for their marriage. Rosa has copper green hair & an ethereal mermaid-like quality. She doesn’t do much, and her mother doesn’t push her because she has always suspected that she wouldn’t live long, for no particular reason. Clara is the younger sister of ordinary appearance. She is very bold and does and says whatever she wants. She’s a not a bad child, but she is very strange, as she converses with spirits and practices telekinesis. Her parents are not particularly bothered by this. One day she predicts that a member of the family will die, and the next day Rosa drinks wine that was poisoned by one of her father’s political enemies and passes away. Clara thinks that this is her fault because if she hadn’t predicted the death and said it out loud it might not have happened, and she stops speaking for 10 years.

 Esteban Trueba is devastated upon finding out about Rosa’s death. His devastation soon turns to fury and he burns all his letters from Rosa and quits working at the mine, no longer seeing a purpose for it even though he’d just discovered a vein of gold. He misses the main part of Rosa’s funeral, but sees her buried. He briefly meets Clara, whom he finds endearing and feels sympathetic for. Esteban then decides to go to Tres Marias, a hacienda he’s inherited that his father ran to the ground before he died. It had been abandoned for years and was in a dilapidated state. Esteban, with extreme brutality, turns it around and it becomes very profitable. We see his true nature, as he rapes everybody and works the residents almost to death, justifying his actions in his head by teaching them about nutrition and building a school house. Then, he receives word from his sister Ferula that their mother is dying, and he returns to the city. His mother tells him that she wants him to get married. Even though he’d had no desire for marriage since Rosa died, overcome with guilt for essentially abandoning her, he decides to honor his mother’s wish.

The same day, Clara speaks for the first time in 10 years, announcing at dinner that she is going to marry the fiancé of Rosa. Sure enough, Esteban shows up at their door, asking the De Valles if they had any daughters left to marry. They reply that Clara is the only one left & that she is too strange and no good at domestic tasks, but Esteban takes a liking to her. He thinks that while Rosa was the more beautiful, Clara is the more enchanting.

Their marriage starts off on a good note and they have three children, a daughter named Blanca and twin sons named Jaime and Nicolas. As the years pass, Clara either sees or predicts Esteban’s true nature, and they become more distant. The more distant Clara becomes, the more obsessed with her Esteban gets. Blanca grows up a happy child, and spends summers alongside Pedro Tercero, the son of the foreman of Tres Marias. Their deep childhood friendship eventually turns to love. One day Esteban catches them together. He whips Blanca and tries to kill Pedro. Clara later points out the hypocrisy of his actions since he used to go around raping peasants before his marriage, and he knocks her teeth out. He’s sorry, but she never talks to him again.

Meanwhile Blanca is pregnant. Esteban quickly arranges a cover-up marriage, but it doesn’t work out and Blanca eventually moves back to their house in the city with her daughter Alba. Esteban despises all of his children at this point, but loves Alba, who has green hair like Rosa. Clara eventually dies, and the story shifts focus to Alba. Unlike her grandfather who is a powerful member of the conservative party, she is a communist and gets involved in various political activities, to her grandfather’s horror. Eventually, a communist is democratically elected as president. Workers around the country rejoice. Land is given back to them under agrarian reform, and they kidnap Esteban when he tries to visit Tres Marias. Blanca rescues him with the help of Pedro Tercero, who has become a famous singer of the left and convinced the workers to let him go. Esteban becomes more enraged than he ever has before, and decides that this is the end of democracy in the country, even though the new president was elected fairly. With his political power and influence, he helps arrange a military coup, thinking that once the president is ousted the right will return to power.

The coup becomes a military dictatorship, however. After the president is killed, Esteban gets snubbed by the new leadership. It still takes him forever to realize what has happened, though. It is only when he learns that his son Jaime, also a member of the left, was tortured to death that he faces reality. Alba, much more grounded in reality, from the beginning helps to get people in danger out of the country. Eventually the police come and kidnap her, and Esteban has to figure out how to save her.

The book is narrated by Alba retelling her story, with Esteban chiming in occasionally. Esteban is the constant, but the beginning, middle, and end of the book shifts focus from Clara to Blanca to Alba and the ever evolving political situation of the country.

#the house of the spirits #isabel allende #historical fiction #magical realism #novel #book review #bookblr

[vinaldaschileanlitblogthings]

“Five interesting nonfiction books”

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

The Savage Detectives recounts the history of avant-garde poets from 1975 in Mexico City until 1996 in Africa. Their literary movement, visceral realism, begins with a mischievous revolutionary fervor but later spins apart through jealousy, murder, flight, despair, insanity, and, in a very few cases, self-discovery. Although the underlying plotline is straightforward, the narrative structure and multiple points of view belong uniquely to this novel. It is divided into three sections that present the story out of chronological order.

“Mexicans Lost in Mexico” concerns the last two months of 1975 and takes place wholly in Mexico City. It is told through the diary entries of Juan García Madero, a seventeen-year-old whose ambition is to study literature and become a poet. He encounters two older poets, Arturo Belano and Ulysses Lima. Belano and Lima are poètes maudits, the founders of visceral realism, which is defined mostly by its vigorous opposition to mainstream Mexican literature. They gather about them a variety of younger poets, painters, and dancers, publish magazines, organize or invade poetry readings, and migrate from one dive to another in endless discussion. To finance their literary work they peddle marijuana. By chance, the pair discovers that a previous poet also used the term visceral realism to describe a literary movement. This poet is Cesárea Tinajero, a shadowy figure from the 1920’s known for a single published poem. Belano and Lima decide to track her down.

https://www.enotes.com/topics/the-savage-detectives

The house of spirits by Isabelle Allende

On the day that the priest accused her of being possessed by the devil and that her Uncle Marcos's body was delivered to her house accompanied by a puppy, Barrabás, Clara del Valle began keeping a journal. Fifty years later, her husband Esteban and her granddaughter Alba refer to these journals as they piece together the story of their family.

Clara is a young girl when Barrabás arrives at the del Valle house. Her favorite sister, Rosa the Beautiful, is engaged to Esteban Trueba. Clara is clairvoyant and is able to predict almost every event in her life. She is not able to change the future, only to see it. While Esteban is off in the mines trying to make his fortune, Rosa is accidentally poisoned in the place of her father, Severo del Valle. Rosa dies. Clara is so shocked by the events that she stops talking. Nine years later, Esteban has made a fortune with his family property, Tres Marias, thanks to his hard work and to his exploitation of the local peasants. On top of exploiting their labor, Esteban exploits all of the young girls of the peasant families, notably Pancha, for his sexual satisfaction. In addition to the peasant girls, Esteban also has sexual relations with prostitutes, including Transito Soto. Transito and Esteban become friends, and he lends her money to move to the city. Esteban's mother is about to die, and he returns to the city, where he pays a visit to the del Valle home. Esteban and Clara become engaged and marry. They move into the big house on the corner that Esteban built for them. Esteban's sister Ferula moves in with them.

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/houseofspirits/summary/

The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal

As Ana María lies dead in her coffin, her transition into the afterlife is haunted with vivid memories and surreal sensory experiences. Surrounded by the people closest to her that mourn her death, the protagonist relives some of her most defining moments as the reader slowly discovers her complex relationships and identities.

https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/chile/articles/an-introduction-to-chilean-literature-in-10-books/

Seeing Red by Lina Meruane

Seeing Red, by Chilean writer Lina Meruane, is an exemplary autobiographical novel. At a party in New York City, the main character, Lina, suffers from a stroke, which causes the blood vessels behind her corneas to burst. According to her, this stroke was inevitable and doctors forewarned her of this fate. Her vision disappears behind what she describes as “black blood.” Rather than panicking, Lina walks back out into the party she’s attending, acting as normal as she can while threads of blood float across her eyes.

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2016/may/seeing-red-lina-meruane

Curfew by José Donoso

This is the political novel Donoso was unable to write while in exile from Chile. Unlike the allegorical A House in the Country, his seventh book provides a gritty, realistic, yet eloquent vision of the author's beleaguered homeland12 years into Pinochet's dictatorship. Manungo Vera, a pop singer who has had some success in Europe but is now on the way down, returns to Santiago and is swept up in preparations for the funeral of Matilde Neruda, widow of the poet. Vera meets an old lover, Judit Torre, at a bar. The radical daughter of a wealthy father front-page headline called her a "Debutante Turned Criminal'' Judit symbolizes elitist alienation. After a near brush with death, the two join the huge crowd that has gathered at the cemetery for the funeral, now an anarchic battleground as both the left and right try to manipulate the event to their own advantage. Time is compressed into 24 hours, giving a heady urgency to the lovers' plans. Donoso's powerful vision of contemporary Chileseen through the grotesque optic that is his trademark makes Curfew an important literary event.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55584-166-9

[hamletsocialist-blog]

ferula trueba (the house of the spirits) and marya bolonskya (war and peace) are the same person?

- both find pride in sacrifice (Mary with her father, Ferula with her mother)

- both are weirdly in love with their brother’s bride (or fiancée)

-both are deeply religious

- both are rare examples of kindness and true devotion

- both have complicated relationships with their brother, rooted in guilt.

-??? Someone discourse with me about the house of the spirits pls

#the house of the spirits #isabel allende #férula trueba #esteban trueba #la casa de los espíritus #war and peace #leo tolstoy #tolstoy discourse #mary bolkonskaya #marya bolkonskaya #prince bolkonsky #andrei bolkonsky #natasha rostova #clara del valle #natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 #npatgco1812

[ayudamosalosanimales]

Personajes

ESTEBAN TRUEBA

Esteban Trueba, el esposo de Clara Del Valle, empieza siendo un muchacho trabajador con el orgullo herido, y acaba convirtiéndose en dueño y señor de una hacienda que le proporciona una riqueza inimaginable, y es un hombre completamente seguro de la corrección de sus convicciones. Año tras año, sigue consiguiendo lo que cree que quiere, pero nunca logra alcanzar la verdadera felicidad. Este hecho probablemente se deba a su tendencia a alejar de su lado a todos los miembros de su familia, y a un carácter hostil que hace que la mayor parte de la gente lo odie. Finalmente, y prácticamente de milagro, Esteban se da cuenta de sus errores, hace las paces con su familia y muere con una sonrisa en los labios.Este personaje representa la fuerza opuesta y complementaria a todas las mujeres fuertes de la novela.

CLARA DEL VALLE:Clara del Valle es la figura maternal por excelencia de esta saga familiar. Clara es el principio y el fin de La casa de los espíritus, el adhesivo que mantiene a la familia Trueba unida, y la fuerza vital de la gran casa de la esquina y de la novela en su conjunto.

BLANCA TRUEBA:Blanca, la hermosa hipocondríaca, es la Hija de Clara y Esteban y es una romántica empedernida. Su mayor logro en la vida es el amor que siente por Pedro Tercero García, con quien acaba viviendo felizmente casada en Canadá

FERULA Y DOÑA ESTER TRUEBA:La madre y la hermana de Esteban son tremendamente desdichadas. Ambas se rigen por estrictos valores morales asociados con la Iglesia católica.Estas dos mujeres sirven para ilustrar la pobreza y la infelicidad de la infancia de Esteban, y explican su agrio carácter. Férula sirve de contraste con el personaje de Esteban.También deberíamos tener en cuenta que Férula se vuelve mucho más agradable cuando conoce a Clara y se muda a la gran casa de la esquina con los recién casados. Si lo que siente Férula por Clara merece la acusación de lesbianismo por parte de Esteban es tema de debate.

[daay10]

—¿Por qué vivía así, si le sobraba el dinero? —gritó Esteban. —Porque le faltaba todo lo demás. —replicó Clara dulcemente.

La casa de los espíritus. Isabel Allende

#la casa de los espíritus #esteban trueba #ferula trueba #isabel allende #clara del valle

[mish-mashh]

she was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

isabel allende; la casa de los espiritus

#isabel allende #the house of spirits #la casa de los espiritus #ferula #ferula trueba #woman #passion #quote #quotes

[ayudamosalosanimales]

Personajes Principales

Personajes:

ESTEBAN TRUEBA:Esteban Trueba es el único personaje de la novela que sobrevive de principio a fin, así que, como podrás imaginar, es una figura bastante importante. Debido a su larga vida, es el personaje que experimenta más cambios a lo largo del libro. Esto lleva a algunos a considerarlo el héroe de la historia.Empieza siendo un muchacho trabajador con el orgullo herido, y acaba convirtiéndose en dueño y señor de una hacienda que le proporciona una riqueza inimaginable, y es un hombre completamente seguro de la corrección de sus convicciones. Año tras año, sigue consiguiendo lo que cree que quiere, pero nunca logra alcanzar la verdadera felicidad. Este hecho probablemente se deba a su tendencia a alejar de su lado a todos los miembros de su familia, y a un carácter hostil que hace que la mayor parte de la gente lo odie. Finalmente, y prácticamente de milagro, Esteban se da cuenta de sus errores, hace las paces con su familia y muere con una sonrisa en los labios.Este personaje representa la fuerza opuesta y complementaria a todas las mujeres fuertes de la novela.

CLARA DEL VALLE:Clara del Valle es la figura maternal por excelencia de esta saga familiar. Clara es el principio y el fin de La casa de los espíritus, el adhesivo que mantiene a la familia Trueba unida, y la fuerza vital de la gran casa de la esquina y de la novela en su conjunto. 

BLANCA TRUEBA:Blanca, la hermosa hipocondríaca, es la Hija de Clara y Esteban y es una romántica empedernida. Su mayor logro en la vida es el amor que siente por Pedro Tercero García, con quien acaba viviendo felizmente casada en Canadá

FERULA Y DOÑA ESTER TRUEBA:La madre y la hermana de Esteban son tremendamente desdichadas. Ambas se rigen por estrictos valores morales asociados con la Iglesia católica.Estas dos mujeres sirven para ilustrar la pobreza y la infelicidad de la infancia de Esteban, y explican su agrio carácter. Férula sirve de contraste con el personaje de Esteban.También deberíamos tener en cuenta que Férula se vuelve mucho más agradable cuando conoce a Clara y se muda a la gran casa de la esquina con los recién casados. Si lo que siente Férula por Clara merece la acusación de lesbianismo por parte de Esteban es tema de debate.

[daay10]

No tenía capacidad para las pequeñas turbaciones, para los rencores mezquinos, las envidias disimuladas, las obras de caridad, los cariños desteñidos, la cortesía amable o las consideraciones cotidianas. Era uno de esos seres nacidos para la grandeza de un solo amor, para el odio exagerado, para la venganza apocalíptica y para el heroísmo mas sublime.

La casa de los espíritus. Isabel Allende

#la casa de los espíritus #isabel allende #ferula trueba