Misreading Kierkegaard – With a Little Help from Isak Dinesen
Misreading Kierkegaard – With a Little Help from Isak Dinesen

Summary/Abstract: Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Danish writer Karen Blixen, née Dinesen (1885-1962), born in Rungsted, north of Copenhagen. In 1914 she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, and went to live in British East Africa (now Kenya) on a coffee plantation. After her divorce in 1921 she remained in Africa, returning to her childhood home in 1931. Here she started to write. She wrote both the Danish and the English versions of all her works, and her first book, Seven Gothic Tales, was published first in USA in 1934, in Denmark in 1935. Out of Africa (1937), which was made into a film, was based on her experiences in Kenya. Blixen’s later works include Winter’s Tales (1942), Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960), and Ehrengard (1963). [...]

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