So maybe she's saying that what seems magical to us might not seem strange to her at all, and that whether we classify her writing as magical realism or not depends on our cultural background. Allendes style in The House of the Spirits is, for the most part, very flowy and organic, as if she were telling the story orally. In fact, Allende has come out and said that she finds it "strange" that her work has been classified as magical realism, because she sees her own novels "as just being realistic literature." Hm. Barrabáss confinement may seem like a small offense, since hes a dog, but as the novel progresses we see greater and greater impediments to.
But now that we've told you that The House of the Spirits is a preeminent example of the genre of magical realism, we should say that Isabel Allende herself doesn't necessarily see it that way. From the very opening of The House of Spirits, when were presented with the image of a caged puppy, the reader is invited to contemplate the themes of freedom and confinement. Want some more? How about Clara's habit of moving the furniture with her mind, the Mora sisters' psychic prophecies, and Old Pedro García's talking cure for ridding Tres Marías of the plague of ants? OK, you're going to hate us for this. So when the entire Trueba family is sitting around eating dinner, normal as can be (well, normal as they can be), and suddenly Férula's ghost walks into the room, that's an example of magical realism. That means that magical or supernatural elements appear in the text alongside perfectly ordinary ones. While The House of the Spirits definitely qualifies as a family drama and a work of historical fiction (see the section of "Setting" for more about the history that informs the book), it's also one of the most well known examples of South American magical realism. Magical Realism, Family Drama, Historical Fiction
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