Out of Africa | Critical Overview

Isak Dinesen gained worldwide acclaim for her literary achievements. The autobiographical Out of Africa enjoyed popular and critical success, especially in the United States and Britain. Most reviewers applauded her lyrical style.

Katherine Woods, in her 1938 article for The New York Times Book Review, finds Dinesen's prose in Out of Africa "without redundancies, bared to its lines of strength and beauty. There was no fat on it, and no luxuriance anywhere, she says of her African landscape; so in the book there is no...

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