Karen Blixen: 5 books

Achterflap “Als ik een lied van Afrika ken – zo peinsde ik – van de giraffe en van de Afrikaanse nieuwe maan, van de ploegen in het veld en de bezwete gezichten van de koffieplukkers, kent Afrika dan ook een lied van mij?” Out of Africa is een onwaarschijnlijk mooi geschreven roman over het...

Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Africa that launched a million tourist trails. In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Karen Blixen. Longue nouvelle, ou court roman, "Champ de douleur" est sans nul doute l'un des plus bouleversants récits de l'auteur du "Festin de Babette" et du célèbre roman autobiographique "La Ferme Africaine" (adapté au cinéma sous le titre...

11 short stories with entertaining and elaborate plots by the Danish writer. Almost all of Blixen's tales weave Gothic themes such as incest and murder with myth and bewitchment. Very frequently she portrays people with unusual mental states in great depth and with remarkable imaginative clarity.

In this witty classic short story Babette’s Feast, a mysterious French housekeeper, who is taken in by two Danish sisters, wins the lottery and as a gesture of gratitude prepares an extravagant and sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious, ascetic, aging villagers and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of charity and grace.