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36 Karen Blixen: Out of Africa (1937)Sophie WennerscheidKaren Christentze von Blixen-Finecke, born Dinesen, was a Danish author best known for her short.

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Out of Africa

1937 memoir by Karen Blixen

This article is about the book. For the film, see Out of Africa (film). For other uses, see Out of Africa (disambiguation).

Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the eighteen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it in Danish. The book has sometimes been published under the author's pen name, Isak Dinesen.

Background

Karen Blixen moved to British East Africa in late 1913, at the age of 28, to marry her second cousin, the SwedishBaronBror von Blixen-Finecke, and make a life in the British colony known today as Kenya. The young Baron and Baroness bought farmland below the Ngong Hills about 16 km (10 mi) southw

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Other notable Danish authors

Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Often called the “Danish Moliére”, playwright Holberg wrote intelligent comedies that are still popular with modern audiences.

Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872): Grundvig’s work has impacted every modern Dane: his philosophies are the base of all Danish education. A pastor, poet, and philosopher, he is also known for his hymns.

Georg Brandes (1842-1927): A contemporary of the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, Brandes was a social-liberal who believed realism in literature was more important than hyper-aesthetic writing and fantasy.

Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885): Educated as a botanist, Jacobsen pioneered a naturalistic Danish literature. An atheist, he was the first to translate Charles Darwin’s work into Danish.

Martin Andersen Nexø (1869-1954): Nexø was the first significant author to focus on the Danish working class. His novel Pelle the Conqueror was adapted for the screen by Danish director Bille August. A proud communist, Nexø moved to East Germany after World

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The Pearls

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She had lived in Denmark, and for a year in a pension in Lübeck, and her idea of the earth was that it must spread out horizontally, flat or undulating, before her feet. But in these mountains, everything seemed strangely to stand up vertically, like some great animal that rises on its hind legs, – and you know not whether it is to play, or to crush you.

During their honeymoon to Norway, Jensine makes several disheartening realisations about her husband, Alexander. Combined with the rumours of war spreading in the newspapers, Jensine begins to ponder what the future will bring. Her worries flow over: she accidentally snaps her pearl necklace, a family heirloom…

Biography

Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born: Dinesen; 1885-1962) was a Danish author and Baroness and one of Denmark’s major literary figures. Her reputation was established initially in the United States with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales in 1934. Marrying into nobility, the couple went to Kenya where she managed a coffee plantation. Her experiences of those seventeen years