FA: Memoir of Out of Africa Author Isak Dinesen

Memoir of Out of Africa Author Isak Dinesen

Bjornvig, Thorkild: THE PACT: MY FRIENDSHIP WITH ISAK DINESEN

Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1983. First Thus.



Isak Dinesin (Baroness Karen Blixen), 1885-1962, Danish author, wrote
primarily in English. In 1914 she married Baron Blixen and went to live in
British East Africa, on a coffee plantation. She was divorced in 1921 and
took over the management of the plantation where she lived until 1931, when
falling coffee prices forced her to return to Denmark. From her experiences
she wrote her autobiographical Out of Africa (1937), which became a
successful film. Dinesen is best known for her tales, many of which have
eerie, supernatural elements. Her works include Seven Gothic Tales (1934),
Winter's Tales (1943), Last Tales (1957), and Anecdotes of Destiny (1958).
Writing despite severe illness, Dinesen finished the African sketches
Shadows on the Grass in 1960.



In 1948 the young Danish poet Thorkild Bjornvig was invited to dinner by
Baroness Blixen, who had become famous throughout the world for the
haunting, powerful stories that she wrote under the name Isak Dinesen. Their
meeting was the beginning of an intense friendship, a bond that would aspire
to a mystical intimacy and demand an almost feudal loyalty. When the young
poet, fearful of Dinesen's domination over him, broke off with her five
years later, he left the older writer bitter and bewildered. During
Dinesen's lifetime, Bjornvig refused to comment on their relationship. But
after her death, he gave his own complete account in The Pact.



>From Publishers Weekly

This memoir of Dinesen's platonic lover, who, in his 30s, was half her age,
shows the storyteller to have been a woman of intense compassion and stern
rejection, of great generosity and outrageous selfishness. "Painfully
candid," PW stated.

Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.



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