The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

EPILOGUE

I have been writing for forty years and I have published twenty-five books. Now my task is easier because I have a computer instead of an old typewriter, and I have some experience, but the process has not changed. I write without a script, instinctively. I feel in my heart that the story is basically true; it happened, or it is happening now somewhere in the world, or it will happen. After the book is published, I am confronted with critics and professors of literature who deconstruct the novel, analyze and interpret every line, and find hidden meaning where I never intended to put it. Often this process kills the story. Please, dear reader, let intuition and emotion guide you through my pages, as they guided me when I wrote them. My latest novel, VIOLETA, will be out on 2022: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57933338-violeta