http://wendypalmer.com.au/2008/11/04/zorro-by-isabel-allende/ Reading and writing genre books and ebooks Sat, 26 May 2012 17:08:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://wendypalmer.com.au/2008/11/04/zorro-by-isabel-allende/#comment-266 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:59:11 +0000 http://wendypalmer.wordpress.com/?p=306#comment-266 That’s an interesting observation: I think of minimal dialogue as a ‘literary’ style in general, bvut you’re quite right in noting that both Allende and Marquez share that focus.

]]> http://wendypalmer.com.au/2008/11/04/zorro-by-isabel-allende/#comment-263 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:04:48 +0000 http://wendypalmer.wordpress.com/?p=306#comment-263 I don’t think that Allende writes dialogue well either, in fact she doesn’t use it in her narratives as a rule and interestingly Gabriela Garcia Marquez doesn’t either. Perhaps it’s the storytelling nature of the Latin culture that keeps the writing in the realm of the storyteller rather than the characters?

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