Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U dobrom stanju

Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

Last Tales is a collection of twelve of the last tales that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962. They include seven tales from Albondocani, a projected novel that was never completed; `The Caryatids,` an unfinished Gothic tale of a couple bedeviled by an old letter and a gypsy`s spell; and three tales of winter, including `Converse at Night in Copenhagen,` a drunken, all-night conversation between a boy-king, a prostitute, and a poor young poet.

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The author of the magnificent Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen is renowned as a storyteller of great power and resonance.
Last Tales, written towards the end of her life, reveals the extraordinary breadth of her imagination. Ornate, sensuous, mysterious—these twelve stories range from country to country, from point to point in time, from comedy to tragedy, from reality to fantasy. Here, Isak Dinesen skilfully and surely convinces us that “the divine art is the story.”

“They have a vigor which persuades us that vigor perfectly solves the secret of delicacy, for her stories are the essence of delicacy.”
—Eudora Welty, The New York Times

“The dozen stories in this collection may be the literary testament of one of the most skilled but least prolific writers of the 20th century... The characters are large, heroic figures, and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction; the art to make them live vitally—as Dinesen does—is rarer still.”
—Time