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Article: Out of Isak Dinesen: Karen Blixen's Untold Story.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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By Linda Donelson. Iowa City, IA: Coulsong, 1998, 394 pp., $35.00 hardcover.
The writer known to the world as Isak Dinesen created her own myth in Out of Africa, a magical account of a young Danish woman's life on an African farm in the early years of this century. Since the publication of that classic memoir, the Isak Dinesen myth has grown, essentially because of her published works, yet considerably enhanced by a persona she invented to charm and enchant: the draped clothing, the gothic allure of the syphilis believed to be racking her body and, as she aged, the alarming thinness, the witch-like features, the cigarette dangling from the skeletal fingers and the ...