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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses"
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses"
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses"
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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses"

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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateNov 3, 2016
    ISBN9781535818599
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses"

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      A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite - Gale

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      Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

      Isabel Allende

      1998

      Introduction

      In the opening sentence of her 1998 book, Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses, Chilean author Isabel Allende declares: I repent of my diets, the delicious dishes rejected out of vanity, as much as I lament the opportunities for making love that I let go by. In the height and rigor of physical self-awareness of the late 1990s in America, Allende’s literary celebration of sex and food found ample response: her naughty recipe/pillow book ended up on the New York Times bestseller list.

      Allende’s seventh book follows the author’s tradition of semi-autobiographical literature; it is a memoir of return to life, written after her 1997 novel Paula about the painful loss of her daughter. In the introduction, Allende states that her re-awakening to sensual pleasures marked her exit from the three-year period of sadness. The critics, calling Aphrodite an unusually light work for an author of customarily weightier literature, still praised it as a life-affirming sequel to the grief and anguish of Paula.

      Aphrodite’s anything-but-linear narrative is a mix of the author’s romantic and culinary musings and recollections, her friends’ stories, world recipes, excerpts from erotic texts, folktales, mythology, anthropology, poetry, travel writing, ancient and historical anecdotes, even gossip. In Allende’s words, Aphrodite is a mapless journey through the regions of sensual memory, in which the boundaries between love and appetite are so diffuse that at times they evaporate completely.

      Even the author’s California house was inspiring for the writing of her novel: as the author stated in an interview with Fred Kaplan for The Boston Globe, it was the town’s first brothel, then it was a church, then it was the first chocolate-chip cookie factory. So we live with all these smells—of the women and the chocolate—wafting in the air.

      Author Biography

      Isabel Angelica Allende was born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru, to parents Tomas, a Chilean diplomat, and Francisca (Llona Barros) Allende. After her parents’ divorce, three-year-old Isabel returned with her mother to Santiago, Chile; she grew up in her grandparents’ home and attended a private high school. In 1962, Allende married her first husband, Miguel Frias, an engineer. After several years as a secretary, Allende started working as a journalist, editor, and advice columnist for Paula magazine; she also occasionally worked on television and movie newsreels.

      In 1973, her uncle, Chilean president Salvador Allende, was assassinated in a right-wing military coup against his socialist government; Allende, her husband, and their two children fled the country and moved to Venezuela, where Allende had trouble finding work. While in exile and under the influence of her memories of Chile, Allende wrote her first semi-autobiographical novel, The House of the Spirits, which was inspired by her letters to her grandfather. Published in 1982, the novel became an instant success and placed Allende in the literary category

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