087449
London
1983
12,5×19,5
meki
474
engleski
Cijena: 10,00 EUR
The book, published in 1981, is a collection of private letters by Danish author Karen Blixen (known under the pen name Isak Dinesen), written to her family in Denmark during the seventeen years she spent running a coffee farm in Kenya. These letters provide a raw, unvarnished background to her experiences that were later turned into her famous memoir Out of Africa. The letters are primarily addressed to her mother Ingeborg Westenholz and brother Thomas Dinesen. They detail her daily struggles with running the farm, financial difficulties, illness, and her complex relationships with the local population and colonial society. Unlike the romanticized version in the memoir, these letters reveal her vulnerability, her struggle with syphilis from her husband Bror, and her deep depression following the death of her lover Denys Finch Hatton. The book was edited by Frans Lasson and translated into English by Anne Born. It was first published posthumously in Danish (1978) and then in English (1981). The letters serve as documentation of the process by which real events became "myth" in her later writing. They reveal her modern views on marriage, women's freedom, and politics, which were often ahead of her time. Reality vs. Film: Readers familiar with the film Out of Africa will find in this collection a much "darker" and more realistic portrayal of her life in Africa.
