![]() ![]() ![]() "I loved to get sick because he'd come and stay with me and invent stories with great characters," Esquivel told Southwest Review. Although many novelists look back on a childhood filled with books, Esquivel gained her narrative sense from stories told to her by her parents, especially her father. ![]() With her sense of humor and her winning way of describing family dynamics in Like Water for Chocolate, however, Esquivel merged magical realism with a storyteller's common touch.īorn in Mexico City around 1951, Esquivel was the daughter of a telegraph operator -a profession that plays a role in Esquivel's novel Swift as Desire. Like her Chilean contemporary Isabel Allende, Esquivel put a feminist twist on the important Latin American literary trend of "magical realism," embedding supernatural elements symbolic of deep forces inside conventionally realistic narratives. ![]() Esquivel followed up that novel with other works that, if less consistently acclaimed, displayed equal originality. Like Water for Chocolate, a unique novel in the form of a cookbook by the Mexican writer Laura Esquivel, became one of the surprise literary hits of the 1990s and spawned one of the most successful foreign-language films of all time in the United States. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |