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[EAN: 9780394476001], [PU: Random House], LITERATURE TRANSLATED DENMARK SCANDINAVIA LITERARY CRITICISM, New York. 1972. March 1972. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slight… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780394476001], [PU: Random House], LITERATURE TRANSLATED DENMARK SCANDINAVIA LITERARY CRITICISM, New York. 1972. March 1972. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears . 039447600x. 218 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this critical study of Isak Dinesen's work, Donald Hannah, a professor at the University of Aarhus, examines Dinesen's art as a reflection of her life. The mask she adopted toward life, symbolized by the pseudonym ‘Isak Dinesen,' and the reality behind the mask are explored through her books: OUT OF AFRICA, SEVEN GOTHIC TALES, SHADOWS ON THE GRASS, LAST TALES, WINTER'S TALES and ANECDOTES OF DESTINY. The author of these works is among the finest writers in the English language; Ernest Hemingway, upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, told the press that he felt unworthy of the honor, which, in his opinion, should have been bestowed on Isak Dinesen. Karen Blixen was born in Denmark in 1885, and after her marriage to a Swedish baron, she developed and ran a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years. But when the coffee market collapsed, she was forced to return to Denmark, and there she dedicated herself to writing her accounts of Africa and her Gothic tales, under the name of Isak Dinesen. In this volume Professor Hannah examines ‘Isak Dinesen' and Karen Blixen, the writer and the person. While her writing about Africa was realistic in every detail and reflected movingly the events in her daily life, some of her fictional tales are set at least a century ago in Denmark and seem utterly remote from her daily life in her native country. Yet, says Hannah, these supernatural tales tell much about her, and in exploring the reality behind the mask, Professor Hannah has written a penetrating study of her work. In addition, her only play, THE REVENGE OF TRUTH: A MARIONETTE COMEDY, never before translated into English, has been included in this volume. inventory #10744 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears, Books<

1972, ISBN: 9780394476001

New York. 1972. March 1972. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears . 039447600x. 218 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. FR… Mehr…

New York. 1972. March 1972. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears . 039447600x. 218 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this critical study of Isak Dinesen's work, Donald Hannah, a professor at the University of Aarhus, examines Dinesen's art as a reflection of her life. The mask she adopted toward life, symbolized by the pseudonym ‘Isak Dinesen,' and the reality behind the mask are explored through her books: OUT OF AFRICA, SEVEN GOTHIC TALES, SHADOWS ON THE GRASS, LAST TALES, WINTER'S TALES and ANECDOTES OF DESTINY. The author of these works is among the finest writers in the English language; Ernest Hemingway, upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, told the press that he felt unworthy of the honor, which, in his opinion, should have been bestowed on Isak Dinesen. Karen Blixen was born in Denmark in 1885, and after her marriage to a Swedish baron, she developed and ran a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years. But when the coffee market collapsed, she was forced to return to Denmark, and there she dedicated herself to writing her accounts of Africa and her Gothic tales, under the name of Isak Dinesen. In this volume Professor Hannah examines ‘Isak Dinesen' and Karen Blixen, the writer and the person. While her writing about Africa was realistic in every detail and reflected movingly the events in her daily life, some of her fictional tales are set at least a century ago in Denmark and seem utterly remote from her daily life in her native country. Yet, says Hannah, these supernatural tales tell much about her, and in exploring the reality behind the mask, Professor Hannah has written a penetrating study of her work. In addition, her only play, THE REVENGE OF TRUTH: A MARIONETTE COMEDY, never before translated into English, has been included in this volume. inventory #10744 ISBN: 039447600x., 0<