... as it's equal, by employing the use of magical realism, a modern Latin American literary tradition, with in her masterwork, The House of the Spirits, paralleling the magical realist work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez who discourses on the decay of absolute patriarchal power, as seen in Autumn of the Patriarch. The House of the Spirits, loosely based on Allende's own life story, is a complex ... peasant girls. The influence of Rosa lingers on his mind, as well as the other strong feminine influence of his sister Ferula, who raised him. In Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's par...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate