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...AFRICA-Isak Dinesen-Ran-dom House...
Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke is a distant cousin of Denmark's King Christian. His first wife is a middle-aged woman named Ellen, who divorced him in 1921, wrote best-selling Seven Gothic Tales in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. Baron Bror's second wife is a pert, pretty, English girl of 28, named Eva, who spends most of her time seeking adventure. During one long trek alone in Africa, her automobile broke down. She had to be pushed by natives for 32 days. In Ethiopia last year she watched...
...once they were offered a book that would neither harrow their feelings, shame their social consciences, shock their susceptibilities nor arouse their baser impulses. Worlds apart from the concerns of their everyday lives, Seven Gothic Tales opens a window on a refreshingly different world-the world of "Isak Dinesen." Like their romantically pseudonymous author, these seven stories are romantic, but with a difference. Each has the depth of a well-conceived novel. Removed from the U. S. reader in time (the 19th Century) and place (Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Africa), they are even further removed in atmosphere. Some of them...
...conversation of Author Dinesen's characters cannot be uncorked with impunity, but these drops give an inkling of the flavor: "I remember an old Danish bishop's saying to me that there are many ways to the recognition of truth, and that Burgundy is one of them. . . . I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with Him. To love Him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of His own heart." One of Dinesen's sophisticated elders quotes "that...
...Author "is a Continental European, writing in English although that is not native to his pen, who wishes his-or-her identity not to be known." What slight internal evidence the stories give would seem to show that "Isak Dinesen" is a Dane...