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...Isak Dinesen, Danish author of four books of fantasy tales, which have been translated into several languages, will lecture to University students Friday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Fogg Large Lecture Room...
ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, by Isak Dinesen (244 pp.; Random House; $3.75), tells how, once upon a time, there was a theological student of Shiraz who thought highly of angels-so highly that he made himself wings and got all set for flight to the angelic spheres. But the Shiraz authorities, who disapproved of high-flown ideas, dressed up a beautiful dancer to look like an angel and planted her on the roof of the student's house, where he studied the skies. By next morning the happy student had reached two important conclusions: that angelic conduct...
Five such parables constitute this new book by Isak Dinesen (real name: Baroness Karen Blixen). All are pleasant, intriguing, and in the trollish Scandinavian vein of Danish Author Dinesen's Winter...
Like much of aging (73) Author Dinesen's fiction, some of these Anecdotes are too fey or too coy for popular consumption. But they have a place of their own in that special realm that authors never tire of exploring-the realm in which artistry, be it Shakespeare's or a cook's, seems more real than reality itself...
LAST TALES, by Isak Dinesen. Gothic stories ranging in scene from Denmark to Italy, and turning on the tragic ironies that bow kings as well as poets and murderers. Superior fare for those who like a mixture of the sublime, the grotesque and the supernatural...