Almost a century later the gasp still echoes audibly. Can you imagine the response to the lyrically nostalgic Out of Africa when readers learned that the creator of their new obsession was none other than a Danish Baroness? Not only was their writer aristocratic, but she was also a woman. The American public’s imagination was comprehensively seized.įour years later a new book by Isak Dinesen appeared. The stories were beautifully crafted, complicated, convoluted, enigmatic, occasionally erotic and violent and very, very unexpected. Seven Gothic Tales had been written by a mysterious foreigner by the name of Isak Dinesen. In 1934 the Book of the Month Club issued a curious collection by Random House in America. Babette’s Feast (1986), set in the 19th-century Scandinavian village and Out of Africa(1987).īut we are getting ahead of our story. Of course, two of her stories also won Oscars during this period of the eighties. One must wonder what this woman, who spent her life writing and wondering about the role of fate in controlling human lives would have thought of this throw of the dice? It is a pity that Hollywood got her wrong. Instead, Denys Finch Hatton appropriates the real Karen, Baroness Blixen’s, compassion and grief over the changes European settlers force on the Kenyans, their culture, their identity, and their dignity. In Out of Africa, movie Karen, Baroness Blixen, is cast as a European settler who forces her culture and will on the native people.
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