Volume 33, Number 12 · July 17, 1986
The Eighth Gothic Tale
By Jane Kramer
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Out of Africa
a film by Sydney Pollack, screenplay by Kurt Luedtke
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen
Random House/Vintage, 502 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen
Random House/Vintage, 432 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Winter's Tales
by Isak Dinesen
Random House/Vintage, 320 pp., $4.95 (paper)
The Angelic Avengers
by Isak Dinesen
University of Chicago Press, 304 pp., $8.95
Last Tales
by Isak Dinesen
Random House/Vintage, 352 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
by Isak Dinesen
Random House/Vintage, 384 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Letters from Africa: 1914–1931
by Isak Dinesen, edited for the Rungstedlund Foundation by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born
University of Chicago Press, 474 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Daguerrotypes and Other Essays
by Isak Dinesen, foreword by Hannah Arendt
University of Chicago Press, 229 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
by Judith Thurman
St. Martin's, 495 pp., $9.95 (paper)
West with the Night
by Beryl Markham
North Point Press, 294 pp., $12.50 (paper)
The Pact: My Friendship with Isak Dinesen
by Thorkild Bjornvig, translated by Ingvar Schousboe, by William J. Smith
Louisiana State University Press, 184 pp., $14.95
The Flame Trees of Thika
by Elspeth Huxley
Penguin, 288 pp., $3.95 (paper)
On the Edge of the Rift: Memories of Kenya
by Elspeth Huxley
(out of print)
White Mischief
by James Fox
Random House/Vintage, 299 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and his Relationship with Karen Blixen
by Errol Trzebinski
University of Chicago Press, 348 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Kenya Pioneers
by Errol Trzebinski
Norton, 240 pp., $18.95
Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa quotations from
collected by Peter Beard, with original photographs (January 1914–July 1931) and Isak Dinesen
(out of print)
Maybe Sydney Pollack was right in his movie Out of Africa. Isak Dinesen wanted to marry Denys Finch Hatton and Denys Finch Hatton didn't want to marry Isak Dinesen, and the rest of the biography, or, rather, the rest of the industry. Isak Dinesen has become, is an exercise in exotic invention of the sort Dinesen herself practiced.
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