Isabel Allende, El amante japonés [The Japanese Lover]

M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo (Universidad Isabel I)

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 2015

Places

Chile (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

After the crime novel El juego de Ripper [Ripper] (2014), which surprised her devout, long-time readers, Allende returned to a subject dealing with love (and the lack of it) with El amante japonés (2015). If in El plan infinito [The Infinite Plan] (1991) Allende had already explored an enduring love that persisted for decades well into old age, in El amante japonés love in old age is also the main focus. This also marked a departure after the emphasis on youth of El cuaderno de Maya [Maya’s Notebook] (2011) (whose teenage protagonist was deemed rather questionable in her cultivated way of expressing herself, resembling a woman Allende’s age rather than a …

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Citation: Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. "El amante japonés". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 April 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35908, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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