Karen Blixen fue una narradora en el sentido tradicional y oral de la palabra. Su obra combina hábilmente elementos sobrenaturales, esteticismo y matices eróticos con una visión aristocrática del mundo. Inspirándose en un rico tapiz de fuentes, incluida la Biblia, Las mil y una noches, Homero y las sagas islandesas, creó narrativas que exploran las profundidades de la experiencia humana. Su voz única y su arte literario continúan cautivando a los lectores, ofreciendo una perspectiva atemporal sobre la narración y la vida.
África es la gran protagonista de estas memorias, testimonio de la mayor pasión de Isak Dinesen. Estas páginas que recogen su vida en Kenia destilan la intensa y refinada esencia de un territorio mítico, con un pueblo, una cultura y un paisaje ajenos al mundo europeo.
Ehrengard, cuento póstumo de la baronesa Karen Blixen, más conocida universalmente por su seudónimo Isak Dinesen, es el epítome de su obra de narradora, su cuento más acabado y también el más descarado, el más desconcertante, el más engañoso en cierto sentido. Cuando lo escribió es obvio que había llegado al último arabesco, al postrer estadio de la escritura de cuentos: aquel en que resulta imperceptible la frontera entre la literalidad y la ironía. En esta pastoral concebida a la sombra del Diario de un seductor de Kierkegaard, a la de Goethe, a la del Shakespeare de La tempestad, está el artificio llevado hasta su último extremo, está la estructura -tan querida para la baronesa- de cajas chinas y de relato epistolar, está la desfachatez del cuentista que sacrifica cualquier regla para la eficacia de la historia.
Este libro relata siete cuentos con historias fascinantes que componen uno de sus mejores libros. Es una joya de la literatura del siglo XX con relatos en ambientes aristocráticos, góticos, románticos. La narración es inmejorable y parece ausentarse de la realidad. Se muestra escapista, intrincada pero accesible. Posee una penetrante hondura psicológica y una maravillosa captación atmosférica.
Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction...made her an international success and a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature..._these letters+ contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out Of Africa.
Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.
In her memoir, Out of Africa, and in short stories, Danish-born writer Dinesen evoked a timeless Africa distilled from her 18 years on a Kenya coffee plantation. This lovely-looking but ultimately shallow picture book, a tie-in with the film based on Out of Africa, splices excerpts from Dinesen's autobiographical writings, stories and letters with color photographs of Africa's land, people and wildlife. For readers familiar with her works, the album is pleasant enough, though readers expecting visual signs of today's real, changing, troubled Africa will be disappointed. In an almost apologetic introduction, Judith Thurman, Dinesen's biographer, notes that the writer was not a conservationist, enjoyed big game hunting and had paternalistic, feudal relationships with Africans. Nevertheless, Dinesen upheld the dignity and value of African culture, and her rhythmic prose captured the complex poetry of Africa's landscape.
Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; "The Caryatids," an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy's spell; and three tales of winter, including "Converse at Night in Copenhagen," a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.
Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.
Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark.
In 1937, Karen Blixen published 'Out of Africa', her remarkable chronicle of life on an African Farm, from which this account is taken.
