![]() (3) Due to a misdiagnosis for a seizure, she received a massive dose of sedatives that pushed her into a coma from which she never emerged. This book, which can also be read as a biographical pathography, is a loving tribute to her late daughter, Paula Frias Allende, who in 1991 became gravely ill with porphyria, a rare, genetic disease that she inherited from her father. THE Chilean novelist, Isabel Allende (1942-), creates meaning from the experience of suffering through her daughter's illness and from bereavement in an autobiographical narrative entitled Paula (1994). It is strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature. ![]() You don't have anything If you don't have the stories. ![]() ![]() They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. ![]()
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