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Understanding Isak Dinesen
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Understanding Isak Dinesen
By Susan C. Brantly
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C., 2002 235 pages, hardbound, $TK
In spite of her Danish origins, Dinesen gained her initial success in the United States, where she has remained especially popular. The author suggests that despite Dinesen's wide appeal, her irony, allusiveness, obliquit...
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Understanding Isak Dinesen
Scandinavian Review
; Understanding Isak Dinesen By Susan C. Brantly University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C., 2002 235 pages, hardbound, $TK In spite of her Danish origins, Dinesen gained her initial success in the United States, where she has remained especially popular. The author suggests that despite
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Out of Isak Dinesen: Karen Blixen's Untold Story.
The Women's Review of Books
; By Linda Donelson. Iowa City, IA: Coulsong, 1998, 394 pp., $35.00 hardcover. The writer known to the world as Isak Dinesen created her own myth in Out of Africa, a magical account of a young Danish woman's life on an African farm in the early years of this century. Since the publication of that
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True romance. (writer Karen Blixen's life story)
The Women's Review of Books
; The writer known to the world as Isak Dinesen created her own myth in Out of Africa, a magical account of a young Danish woman's life on an African farm in the early years of this century. Since the publication of that classic memoir, the Isak Dinesen myth has grown, essentially because of her
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Susan C. Brantly. Understanding Isak Dinesen.(Book Review)
Scandinavian Studies
; Columbia, SC: U South Carolina P, 2002. Pp. xv + 235. The University of South Carolina Press's Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature series sets out to provide guides for undergraduate and graduate students and nonacademic readers that are conceived as introductions to the
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(book reviews)
Scandinavian Studies
; This collection of essays follows on the heels of Olga Pelensky's Isak Dinesen: The Life and Imagination of a Seducer, published in 1991, also by Ohio University Press (see Scandinavian Studies 64:1, 176-9). Both books are attractively produced and on a subject of interest to Scandinavianists and
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Isak Dinesen: The Danish Scheherezade
Scandinavian Review
; On the 40th anniversary of her death, Dinesen-equally well-known by her real name, Karen Blixen-retains her popularity and renown as one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century-despite her claim to having dined with Socrates. NO ONE CAME INTO LITERATURE MORE BLOODY THAN I," claimed Isak
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(movie reviews)
Saturday Evening Post
; OUT OF AFRICA The late Isak Dinesen's largely allegoricalfiction, set in the haze of a mythological past and brimming with magical portent, suggests that its author barricaded herself from the world and chose to live only in the precincts of her imagination. Nothing could be further from thetruth.
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Dinesen biography becomes a success story.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ... had not been published earlier in magazines or anthologies. The news was rather discouraging to Donelson, a native of Waconia, Minn ... slowly, announcing church events and matter-of-fact religious news, but he hits his stride before midbook, displaying a fabulous ...
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(theater reviews)
The New Leader
; Lucifer's Child, at the Music Box, also employs a live star to play a dead one. Julie Harris, one of the theater's remaining grandes dames, impersonates Karen Blixen, better known as Isak Dinesen. The last time we saw this writer of elegant gothic tales she was represented by Meryl Streep in Out of
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BOOK CLUB Hilary Spurling introduces her choice for january: 'winter's tales' by isak dinesen
The Sunday Telegraph London
; I have never forgotten a captivating passage I read long ago in Isak Dinesen's Winter's Tales about the importance of superficiality. I was very young then, too young probably to grasp its implications. It comes from the second story in the book, The Young Man with The Carnation, about a hugely
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