635 Isabel Allende's Invented Country
Class | Registration opens 2/3/2025 11:00 AM
Born in Peru and reared in Chile, Isabel Allende watched as her country was torn to shreds in 1973 when a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet and orchestrated by the CIA, burned buildings, schools and homes and spread panic across the landscape of her youth.
Allende watched as her uncle, Salvador Allende, then President of Chile, was held in the presidential palace during the coup and eventually committed suicide. Soon after, Isabel fled to Venezuela where she lived for the next 13 years and wrote her first novel The House of the Spirits, the novel that was intended to exorcise the ghosts of Pinochet.
This class will read and discuss a pairing of Allende's memoir My Invented Country and The House of the Spirits.
We will follow the path Allende traveled from childhood in Peru to Chile and finally to the US and how that path led to the huge literary success that is The House of the Spirits.
Join me as we explore in depth the life and writing of this memorable Latin American author.
REQUIRED TEXTS/MATERIALS:
My Invented Country. ISBN 0-06-054567-4
The House of the Spirits ISBN 978-0-553-38380-5
Notebook and writing tool
Logan Coney
LOGAN CONEY spent 20 years in education in various capacities. Her experience extends to teaching reading and English in alternative educational settings, middle school and high school, including college placement and advanced placement courses.