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Article: Ingen skygge uden lys: Om livets veje og kunstens i nogle fortaellinger af Karen Blixen.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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"Ingen skygge uden lys" [No shadow without light] is a translation of the Latin inscription on the base of the sundial in the garden at Rungstedlund: "Nunquam umbra sine luce." Photographs of the dial itself appear on the cover of this collection of essays, as well as in the body of the text, where Holmberg calls attention to the snake in the interior of the indicator. Snakes, he reminds us, were one of Karen Blixen's favorite symbols, "et specielt Karen Blixen symbol" (62). For Holmberg, the snake, the sundial, and the motto all point to the central importance of paradox and Christian theology n her work. Here the snake may well play a special role as a trickster, for ...