Isabel Allende, El cuaderno de Maya [Maya's Notebook]

M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo (Universidad Isabel I)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

First circulation or publication Jun 2011

Places

Chile (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Unlike most of Isabel Allende’s literary production, the action in El cuaderno de Maya (Maya’s Notebook) starts not in the author’s native Chile, but in California, where Allende has lived for the past twenty-six years, and which is the setting of some of her previous novels, such as The Infinite Plan (El plan infinito) and Daughter of Fortune (Hija de la fortuna). Very soon after the start of the novel, however, its protagonist, Maya, is sent by her Chilean grandmother, Nini, to her family’s native Chile to try to solve her problems with drugs.

Maya’s Notebook recounts the life of nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, who warns us that “la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y …

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Citation: Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. "El cuaderno de Maya". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 June 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35253, accessed 17 May 2024.]

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