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Unarmed but for a pen, Isak Dinesen, 75, has spent the 27 years of her writing life routing the brute realities of the 20th century from her prose. Minute in output but masterful in style and content, Storyteller Dinesen (Seven Gothic Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny) pursues gothic romance in preference to realism, the aristocratic spirit above democratic camaraderie, fate before fact. She is Denmark's finest living writer and one of the world's best. No less a fan than Ernest Hemingway told his 1958 Nobel Prize audience that the award should have gone to Isak Dinesen...
...mind that conceived The Loser is obviously steeped in good will. But as its author says when speaking of his Nazi non-hero: "As so often happens, pen and mind tell a different story." Hans Winterschild, a Nazi infantry officer, is the loser of the title, and so, by reasonable extension, is Germany. But what if Hans and Hitler had been the winners? There are times when The Loser all but implies that the Allies would have been proved wrong, or so a cynic could argue. Hans is a case-history figure, a dedicated Nazi who never had to contend...
...Luggage, by Gerald Durrell. The author, a noted zoologist and brother of Lawrence Durrell, tells of following his love of animals to the Cameroons, and shows that he has his novelist brother's ability to impale the butterfly of reality on the point of a pen...
...always pound on his desk in a parliament of nations. He may be as urbane as the 18th century philosophers who prepared the way for the guillotine and the tumbrels. Or, in one man's words: He may wear a Brooks Brothers suit and carry a ballpoint pen ... In fact, even beneath the academic gown there may lurk a child of the wilderness, untutored in the high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated and law-abiding man engaged in the construction of a philosophy to put an end to all philosophy This...
...Luggage, by Gerald Durrell. The author, a noted zoologist and brother of Lawrence Durrell, tells of following his love of animals to the Cameroons, and proves to have his novelist brother's ability to impale the butterfly of reality on the point of a pen...