Isak Dinesen (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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In addition to her numerous tales and stories, Isak Dinesen wrote many letters and essays. She is particularly well known, however, for her narrative Den afrikanske Farm (1937; Out of Africa, 1937), which tells of her years in Kenya (a sequel was published in 1960). After her death, two volumes of letters, written while in Africa, were published, as were her essays.
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Isak Dinesen has a special position in modern literature in that she is a major author in two languages. Although a native of Denmark, she wrote in...
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