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Article: Out of Africa.
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- April 1, 1986
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OUT OF AFRICA
The late Isak Dinesen's largely allegoricalfiction, set in the haze of a mythological past and brimming with magical portent, suggests that its author barricaded herself from the world and chose to live only in the precincts of her imagination.
Nothing could be further from thetruth. A member of the Danish upper classes, the Baroness Karen Blixen had traveled through worlds both literary and artistic before her wanderlust brought her to a marriage of convenience and a huge coffee plantation in Kenya. She farmed it with little success for 15 years, hosted the Price of Wales, contracted a lifetime case of syphilis from her husband, got a ...