Winter's Tales
A Fantasy, European Literature, Literature book. Es voluntad del Seor que la humanidad no pueda ser feliz, sino que anhele siempre cosas que no tiene, y...
If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from Isak Dinesen's childhood in Denmark. Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780141185880 / 141185880
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through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth Karen Blixen, Winter's Tales // Es voluntad del Seor que la humanidad no pueda ser feliz, sino que anhele siempre cosas que no tiene, y que, tal vez, no se encuentran en ninguna parte? Los animales y los pjaros viven a gusto en este mundo. No puede ser, entonces, igual de bueno para los seres humanos a los que Dios ha puesto en l: los campesinos que se quejan de su duro destino, los grandes seores que nunca tienen bastante, y los jvenes sacerdotes que aoran el paraso en los bosques verdes? No podra el hombre (no podra, al menos, uno de todos ellos) estar en tal relacin con el Seor...
Short story collections are always inconsistent: some stories you want to read again and again, and some leave you cold. This collection happened to lean toward the first.Dinesen writes beautifully, absolutely beautifully. From "The Sailor-Boy's Tale": "It was April, the sky and sea were so clear that it was difficult to hold one's... "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... This 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...
