My fav chilean writer is Marcela Paz, but she's a kids writer (Papelucho series, is super funny) but there's this one, María Luisa Bombal. She's popular tho

I have a lot of reasons but they aren't about her (at all)

1. My teacher made us read her books excessively through high school. Plus, she talked about her 95% of time.She knew I liked to read so she wanted me to like the same books she liked, basically.
2. While reading her books, the female characters are often shown like, idk, people with high intuition (in a spiritual-ish way) and men oriented to logic stuff. I know, it has a context but it annoys me. One of the books I enjoyed the most was "Maya's notebook" bc one of the women, with these features, was down to earth at the same time, and all the women of the book could represent some of the real chilean women (there was a divorced lady who was the principal of a countryside school, a lady who worked in a lot of things to mantain her family, a woman who left her kid to get a job, a modern nurse). I also liked "Ines of my soul", is one of the best historic novels I read, and super funny. But the rest... idk, maybe it is bc I'm zero espiritual.
3. All people thought that I loved her books bc I like reading. I guess is the equivalent of being an english book lover and having people assuming you love Jane Austen.

The last thing: magic realism isn't my thing at all. Like a lawyer said about her, there are 2 ways of reading her books: enjoying them or looking for defects. I enjoy them but if someone forces me to like them, I'm lost. On the other hand, if someone says again that the "House of the spirits" is the same of "100 years of solitude", I'll jump direct to his/her neck and make him/her cry bc they are literally 2 different things that just share the literature type. Is like saying "War and Peace" and "Vanity fair" are the same thing just bc they share a similar background and theme (aka napoleonic wars + aristocrats life + love stuff)

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omg looks like I smoke somthing, this is a testament, long af

The writer has a lot of books about this theme, I hate her books (I admit she's a good writer but my teacher was a fanatic lol) and the one that hit me the most after this one (the first of her books I read, like all chilean people at school) was "Of love and shadows", it has a movie too (with Jennifer Conelly looking super pretty). The end is brutal and realistic, but it may be considered good tho

You are stupider than a box of rocks