Hannah Arendt on Isak Dinesen: Between Storytelling and Theory

From: Comparative Literature | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Wilkinson, Lynn R | Copyright information

"ALL SORROWS CAN BE BORNE if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." The words stand as an epigraph to the chapter on action in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, first published in 1958. They are attributed to "Isak Dinesen," the British and American nom de plume of the Danish writer known as Karen Blixen in Denmark, although no source is given. Evocative and puzzling, they seem to point to Hannah Arendt's own story, which goes largely untold in her own writing, but they als...

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