The Chilean writer Isabel Allende is called “Marquez in a skirt.” Indeed, in popularity she is second only to this recognized master of Latin American literature. She was born in 1942, and owes her famous surname to Salvador Allende, to whom she was a niece and in whose house she lived in the 70s, finding herself in the thick of political events. The “triangle” of the novel “Love and Darkness” can be described as follows: “Romeo, Juliet and Pinochet.” This book is not only about love, but also about what lies behind the boring word “politics”. However, when a person feels powerless rage and horror before a war that no one needs, before repression and the disappearance of missing loved ones, this word is again filled with meaning. Not only in the minds of Chileans thirty years ago...Afterword and notes by Viktor Andreev.