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Enjoy having book again
Searching still for info that confirms something I remember from when I first read book years ago.It also prompt me to watch the movie again.
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Isak Dinesen: Critical Views
Critical Views is a collection of essays and articles that have appeared over the years about Isak Dinesen.The average reader would have a difficult time tracking these articles to their source, but Olga Pelenskyhas gathered some of the very best essays about Dinesen in this volume. Some of the essays are appearing in English for the first time.The bookis really for scholars or passionate Dinesen fanatics.A number of theessays provide some very helpful insights into Dinesen's fiction. ... Read more

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Married to a man she didn't love and in love with another, Karen Blixen sat down to write "a little piece" to clarify for herself the position of human love in relation to modern marriage. Thus Isak Dinesen and brilliant work were born. ... Read more

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Discover Dinesen
As I was browsing through the biography section of a used bookstore, an old wrinkled face with two wise, lively eyes captivated me. In them was something powerfully beautiful and touching - "full of juices of the golden autumn of life" - that, unlike the vacuity of a generic cover photograph, instantly engaged. I have recently finished Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" which I truly loved, so I couldn't resist the promise of that gaze.

"Titania" introduces a whole new concept of a biography! It's not a gossipy, tell-it-all collection of juicy episodes carefully tailored to satisfy the reader's basic voyeuristic urge, but a loyal rendering of the gentle texture of Dinesen's life. The identity of Tanne's youthful crush is only revealed at the very end, there are no steamy bits about Denys (in fact, Parmenia Migel, Dinesen's friend, uses Tanne's very technique of powerful understatement). Her illness is but indirectly alluded to, and we only find out the nature of her father's mysterious death halfway into the book. "Titania" not only sheds light on Dinesen's private moments and thoughts, it preserves the spirit of the author and her environment and is populated with many characters who possess true aristocracy of the spirit. You will fall in love with Tania! ... Read more

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Fascinating black 'n white biography
Well, for $1 what a bargin!!Large A4 black and white(photos and lots of them) book about lady who wrote "out of africa" that became the film of same name with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. Story of her extra orinary life ( Denmark and Africa..with a visit to the USA thrown in a few years before her death in 1963(? Became a well known writer under name of Isak Dinesen, and wrote with colourful prose,This book is 37 years old and was written by her secretary Easy to read and an excellent story and reference book.(,really both rolled into one)Lots of photos and if you loved the movie, you should read about the lady who actually lived the life..rich story, about love, marriage, relationships and being an author who Makes IT... Buy it..dont be put off by the raw quality of the paper and photos.. ... Read more

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A can't-put-down book
Beautiful, lyrical writing. So descriptive that you feel as if you were there. Astonishing in afterthought to realize that Dr. Donelson didn't have one actual line of dialogue - no "he said" "she said," yet it reads as if conversations took place. This is the type of book that will please any reader who likes well developed characters and swiftly moving plot. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Scandinavian Studies, published by Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 8320 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Self-invention in Isak Dinesen's "The Deluge at Norderney".
Author: Rachel Trousdale
Publication: Scandinavian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Volume: 74Issue: 2Page: 205(18)

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