THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA Critics of Isabel Allende's first book, The House of the Spirits, seized on her blending of magic, hyperbole and realism to insist that it was a shallow ripoff of Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, without perceiving her vast...

Allende works in the tradition of such masters of Latin America literature as Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Translated from the Spanish, her prose is remotely austere. A teller of stories, the central character is Eva Luna, who describes...

In the following essay, Hart contends that Allende employs the technique of magic realism in The Stories of Eva Luna in order to present a feminist perspective on issues such as prostitution, domestic violence, and rape.

In the following essay, Levine offers a stylistic and thematic analysis of The Stories of Eva Luna.

In the following essay, Lindsay provides a socio-psychoanalytic reading of “Niña perversa” in order to examine Allende's use of romantic conventions in her fiction.