#ferula trueba

[mariaaxescallop]

Isabel Allende, La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits)

[b1gbopp3r]

“For the first time she could remember, Férula felt happy.She was closer to Clara than she had ever been to anyone...”

“I can’t sleep at night.I feel as if I’m choking.I get up and walk around the garden and then I walk inside the house. I go to my sister-in-law’s room and put my ear to her door.Sometimes I tip toe in and watch her while she sleeps.She looks like an Angel.I want to climb into bed with her and feel the warmth of her skin and her gentle breathing.”

“In midmorning she personally served her breakfast in bed, threw open the blue silk curtains to let the sun in, and filled the french porcelain bathtub...”

“Then Férula drew her out of bed with a mother’s gentle caresses, telling her the good news from the morning paper...Férula took her strolling in the sun...shopping...for lunch at the golf club...to see her parents...and to the theater...”

[hattersarts]

this is it right? this is peak niche? 

[himblebo]

I’m watching The House of the Spirits again and I got some things to say. 

First of all this imagery? Got me shook. I’m sure I made a post about it the last time I watched this too, but the visual of Clara in her white wedding dress with Ferula in black mirrors Clara walking with Esteban in his suit. This one moment makes me question, which Trueba did Clara actually marry? When all is said and done with her relationships in this film (which I like to treat as a separate entity from Allende’s novel because as an adaptation this movie’s a fair bit off, although this point applies to the novel as well), it’s more or less like she married both of them. 

Anyway, Ferula is gay as hell and cried the first time Clara touched her and if being touch starved ain’t gay culture I don’t know what is.

Separate thought- even though Ferula isn’t portrayed as at all predatory in her devotion to Clara (film or novel), as a character type she reminds me a little bit of Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca? The line is drawn where devotion blurs into obsession but I feel like I’m not reaching too far in seeing some similarities. It could also be 95% her outfit. I don’t know.

[julyzaas-writing-blog]

Férula and Esteban's relationship is so important to me, they hate each other, she raised him and he cares for her because she's his only family, they love the same woman, they are brother and sister.

[daay10]

—¿Por qué vivía así, si le sobraba el dinero? —gritó Esteban. —Porque le faltaba todo lo demás. —replicó Clara dulcemente.

La casa de los espíritus. Isabel Allende

[daay10]

No tenía capacidad para las pequeñas turbaciones, para los rencores mezquinos, las envidias disimuladas, las obras de caridad, los cariños desteñidos, la cortesía amable o las consideraciones cotidianas. Era uno de esos seres nacidos para la grandeza de un solo amor, para el odio exagerado, para la venganza apocalíptica y para el heroísmo mas sublime.

La casa de los espíritus. Isabel Allende

[mish-mashh]

she was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

isabel allende; la casa de los espiritus