Word: isak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magical Power. At first glance, the six objects of Wescott's literary affection-Katherine Anne Porter, Somerset Maugham, Colette. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder-seem to have little in common. But all illustrate Wescott's passionate belief in the magical power of a story to hold those brooding truths about human behavior that cannot be abstracted as philosophy or illuminated in the swift lightning of poetic metaphor...
Died. Baroness Blixen Finecke, 77, author, under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen, of gracefully ghostly short stories (Seven Gothic Tales) and a popular volume of memoirs called Out of Africa; in Rungstedlund, Denmark...
Marquand. Isak Dinesen, Rebecca West...
SHADOWS ON THE GRASS, by Isak Dinesen. The author, who is Denmark's finest writer and one of the world's best, writes a dry, elegiac reminiscence of the years she spent from 1921 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Miss Dinesen's principal theme is the feudal harmony of white master and black servant, making the book seem removed by centuries, not decades, from the present...
...Kenya coffee plantation, Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen once beat back two lions with a bull whip, earned the affectionate appellation "Honorable Lioness." But in 1931, when the coffee market crumbled, she returned to her native land, assumed a name now known and respected throughout the literary world-Isak Dinesen. Last week at 75, the wispy (her weight: 70 lbs.) writer was honored with a statue of herself by California Sculptor Emile Norman. Depicting a wraithlike priestess with a lion and a bird, the work evoked the pre-Mau Mau Kenya that Isak Dinesen cannot forget. It was, as described...