Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 / Isak Dinesen ; edited for the Rungstedlund Foundation by Frans Lasson ; translated by Anne Born.
By: Dinesen, Isak.
Contributor(s): Lasson, Frans
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BookPublisher: London : Picador, 1983Description: xliii, 473 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 033026866X.Subject(s): Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 | Authors, Danish -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 826.912
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Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.
Includes index.
Translation of: Breve fra Afrika
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- The Rain at Ngong: An Introduction to the Letters of Isak Dineson Chronology by Frans Lasson
- Translator's Note
- Letters from Africa 1914-1931 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931
- Notes
- Index
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Kirkus Book Review
The freight of sadness, stoicism, determination, and great grace under pressure is enormous in these letters, written by Dinesen from the time of her first arrival at Ngong in Kenya as Blor Blixen's wife until her departure 17 years later: divorced, alone, her lover Denys Finch-Hatton killed in an airplane crash, her beloved farm taken away from her management by the board of directors of The Karen Coffee Company, Ltd. in Copenhagen. Addressed almost exclusively are Dinesen's mother, her brother Thomas, and her provocative and censorious Aunt Bess. As the years and hardships mount (divorce, childlessness, parlous finances, loneliness, and always the progressive syphilis that Blor had transmitted to her early on), Dinesen's letters grow ever longer; to Bess in particular are aimed remarkably patient, unpatronizing, but firm-minded essays on feminism, hypocrisy, sexual morality. The spiritual achievement of Dinesen lights these letters from every angle--quite elevating. The letters qua letters, though--being unhurriedly large, serenely argued, crammed with woes and local occurrences (lion hunts, farm doings, servant problems)--are mostly unchewable, cumbersome. For scholars and only the most devoted Dinesen-ites, then: bricks that prefigure the crystal wonder of Out of Africa. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Isak Dinesen was born Karen Christentze Dinesen in Rungsted, Denmark on April 17, 1885. She studied English at Oxford University and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. During her lifetime, she wrote plays, short stories, novels, poetry, and nonfiction works. Her career as a writer spanned from 1907 to 1962. She was published in Danish under the name of Karen Blixen and in English under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen. Her short story collections include Seven Gothic Tales, Winter Tales, and Last Tales. Her nonfiction book, Out of Africa, was published in 1937 and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Meryl Streep in 1985. She died of emaciation September 7, 1962.(Bowker Author Biography)