Isak Dinesen
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.9 | 1869 Users | 146 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Vinter-Eventyr |
| ISBN: | 0679743340 (ISBN13: 9780679743347) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night's wandering, he learns love's true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's Winter's Tales transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all stories are born.Details About Books Winter's Tales
| Title | : | Winter's Tales |
| Author | : | Isak Dinesen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1993 by Vintage (first published 1942) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Denmark. European Literature. Danish. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 1869 Users | 146 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books Winter's Tales
I read this book on a short trip to Denmark because I hoped to visit Karen Blixen's home/museum outside Copenhagen. Reading the short stories in Winter's Tales, many set in Denmark and often a century before she wrote them, I became immersed in the characters and surprising twists in her tales, making my visit to her home so special! I walked through the forest around her house, appreciating that she had left instructions for it to be a bird sanctuary, and stood under a huge beech tree where sheThis is just not as good as her earlier collection "Seven Gothic Tales," which has some of the best short stories ever written. That book had a youthful excitement and vigor, full of surprising stories that delighted in the art of keeping the reader on his toes. "Winter's Tales" is much...frostier. Much of it seems cold and dead. It feels as if Dinesen has decided not to be childish any more and instead feels obliged to share great "mature" wisdom with everyone without bothering to tell a
In January of 2016 my life was changing. I had just begun my final contract extension at work and had just decided to move to Colombia to study Spanish in May, after my contract had run its course. I had recently finished reading a wonderful collection of short stories by the great contemporary master of the form, Alice Munro, and was in need of another. So, here I was, my life in a moment of change, and my next several months predetermined to be very busy, and me without a collection of short
Like many Americans (I suspect), my introduction to Isak Dinesen was via the film version of Out of Africa. I actually never saw it until an adult, but my mother bought the film tie-in copy of Out of Africa and Shadows On the Grass which I read cover to cover two or three times in high school -- and my Dinesen obsession was born.This collection of eleven short stories has the feel of a 19th-century fairy tale collection; while reading, I found myself musing if these stories were the ones
There are some fairy-tale elements to this book; mostly it's the tone. Each tale might as well begin with, "once upon a time." Dinesen admitted to being heavily influenced by the Romantics, and rejecting the so-called "realism" popular in Denmark at the time on the basis that she simply wanted to tell beautiful stories. But only the sailor boy's story has elements of magical realism. The transforming power of the stories comes from their acknowledgement of the intricacies of human nature. In
She was an excellent story writer. Sorrow Acre was my favorite of the short stories. For example, this is the first paragraph -- "The low, undulating Danish landscape was silent and serene, mysteriously wide-awake in the hour before sunrise. There was not a cloud in the pale sky, not a shadow alone the dim, pearly fields, hills and woods. The Mist was lilting from the valleys and hollows, the air was cool, the grass and the foliage dripping wet with morning-dew. Unwatched by the eyes of man, and
I went to Denmark, pretty much, to see Karen Blixen's home. It is a beautiful place; the land around the house, including Blixen's grave, has been made into a bird santucary. The house is near the water, and at least when I went there, the walk from the train station included passing what looked to be a Nor. Fjord breeding farm. There was even a resturant with Blixen inspired art work (pricey but very nice) and excellent food.It seems strange that when reading Blixen's non-fiction what comes
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