I am a 'sucker' and I know, "I have a 'soft-spot' for the picaresque novels but sometimes ... hmm ... I seek the right word ... awful. My name is Mikael and I'm addicted to the literary trash.
For me, then, is difficult to understand exactly why this novel is considered 'bad' but I'll guess.
1) It is melodramatic. That is not many moments without action, war, poisonous serpeintes mordaduras of killings and embalmed cadavers are moments of pure reflexion but not abundant. And with that in mind ...
2) It has something to prove. I love about Allende's novels but I've always thought that she sometimes goes literary patterns of other Latin American authors such as Marquez, for example. In Eva Luna, Allende pushes and pushes
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