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| Original Title: | Vinter-Eventyr |
| ISBN: | 0679743340 (ISBN13: 9780679743347) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Isak Dinesen
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.9 | 1869 Users | 146 Reviews
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| Title | : | Winter's Tales |
| Author | : | Isak Dinesen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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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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.Rating Containing Books Winter's Tales
Ratings: 3.9 From 1869 Users | 146 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Winter's Tales
"In all the short lifetime of Danish summer there is no richer or more luscious moment than that week wherein the lime trees flower. The heavenly scent goes to the head and to the heart; it seems to unite the fields of Denmark with those of Elysium; it contains both hay, honey, and holy incense, and is half fairy-land and half apothecary's locker. The avenue was changed into a mystic edifice, a dryad's cathedral, outward from summit to base lavishly adorned, set with multitudinous ornaments, andDNF. I plodded through 3 stories before throwing in the towel. Several years ago I read this author's full-length pastiche 'The Angelic Avengers' & enjoyed it, but these shorts were interminable. Endless religious & philosophical yodeling, endless metaphors, endless weighty clouds of DOOM hanging over an endless cast of disaffected malcontents who sit around thinking about the misery of humanity. In short: I found these too depressing to enjoy for the language & too wordy to be
This is my first taste of Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen and I was in love from the first page. I was encourage by Victoria Mixon's the Art and Craft of Fiction to study her and I am so glad I did. In fact, I'm planning on buying everything by this author and I rarely am that passionate. Blixen reminds me a lot of Flannery O'connor in the religious imagery, the intensity of the characterization and the perplexing endings. She makes me as charmed with 19th century Europe as OConnor does with
In a word - magic! 11 short stories which draw you in quickly - Dinesen has a gift for sparking interest in her characters from the outset and for pulling you into another world... and making you linger there long after the tale is over. *Sigh*Most of the stories are set in the author's native land (Denmark) sometime in the past (frequently the 19th century, though one story takes us as far back as the 13th). Dinesen's nostalgia for her country and its people can be felt strongly, which is part
I think short story collections are often a bit hit or miss, but I enjoyed every single story in this collection. I think it was C.S. Lewis who said that one day we'll be old enough to read fairytales again, and I think that's definitely true for me now. These stories definitely had a fairytale-like quality to them and they were very enjoyable; not only were her descriptions of the Scandinavian region inviting, there was also a lot of wisdom to her words. The writing was also infused with
I never thought I would love anything by Blixen as much as her Seven Gothic Tales, but this collection certainly comes close. These eleven tales are so beautifully written, and all beg for deeper analysis. They are quite different from the gothic tales. The location ia usually Scandinavia, so less exotic. The austere and flat Danish landscape and the clear-cut nordic folklore seep through these stories, making them a little darker and calmer than the gothic tales. And yet they are unmistakably
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
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