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KAREN BLIXEN - ISAK DINESEN
THE STORY OF HER LIFE
Isak Dinesen first came to public attention in 1934 with her book Seven Gothic Tales.
She was unable to find an interested publisher in England or Denmark, and was first published by Random House in the United States. From the beginning she was a mysterious figure; most readers thought she was a man.
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Her tales were convoluted, weird, enigmatic, and sometimes erotic. Almost every sentence was like a prose poem. Each tale--taking place in another era--involved a complicated puzzle, a violent event, a case of mistaken identity, and an unexpected ending.
The tales offered an existential flavor in archaic disguise. They seized the imagination of the American public, where the collection was issued by the Book of the Month Club. The era loved short stories, which appeared universally in popular magazines.
In 1938, when a very different book, Out of Africa, was published by the same author, the reading public